"Conceitedness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and thither comes by and by Sir John Minnes and before him Sir W. Warren and anon a Perspective glasse maker, of whom we, every one, bought a pocket glasse. But I am troubled with the much talke and conceitedness of Mrs. Williams and her impudence, in case she be not married to my Lord. They are getting themselves ready to deliver the goods all out to the East India Company, who are to have the goods in their possession and to advance two thirds of the moderate value ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... I, no doubt, could well express Sir Plume's complete conceitedness,— Could poise a clouded cane with care ...
— Rhymes and Meters - A Practical Manual for Versifiers • Horatio Winslow |
