Scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless I could fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favourite of Heaven because I am not a favourite with men.
You think he is conceited, I see that.
Lucy had said he was inclined to be satirical, and Maggie had mentally supplied the addition, "and rather conceited.
Then with a bright smile, "I think perhaps I could if he were very conceited; and yet, if he got extremely humiliated afterward, I should relent.
She did not answer immediately; very angry words rose to her lips, but they were driven back again, and she said at last: "You often think I'm conceited, Tom, when I don't mean what I say at all in that way.
"Oh, I dare say, and a nasty conceited thing.
" "My dear Rosy, you don't expect me to talk much to such a conceited ass as that, I hope," said Lydgate, brusquely.
" Young Plymdale soon went to look at the whist-playing, thinking that Lydgate was one of the most conceited, unpleasant fellows it had ever been his ill-fortune to meet.
" "Haughtiness is not conceit; I call Fred conceited.
She hated the Guards, whom she thought conceited, and she could not trust herself to speak of their ladies, who were so remiss in calling.
Yes, I've been a conceited old ass, I can quite see that; but now I'm going to be a good Toad, and not do it any more.
"I thought you must be a humbug all along, from the conceited way you talked.
He's got clear away for the time, that's certain; and the worst of it is, he'll be so conceited with what he'll think is his cleverness that he may commit any folly.
Here and there great branches had been torn away by the sheer weight of the snow, and robins perched and hopped on them in their perky conceited way, just as if they had done it themselves.
Perhaps he's not very clever—we can't all be geniuses; and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited.
Amazingly conceited, I am sure.
They are the most conceited creatures in the world, and think themselves of so much importance!
Byron Stirling was there; from Montreal, twelve years old, conceited, clever.
Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the unquenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it.
Tink was very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed was perhaps inevitable, and her chamber, though beautiful, looked rather conceited, having the appearance of a nose permanently turned up.
