"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them." - George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him." - BIBLE, Proverbs 26:12

"Conceit is the finest armor a man can wear." - JEROME K. JEROME, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting."
- SHAKESPEARE, Henry V

"To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance." - OSCAR WILDE, An Ideal Husband