C. S. Lewis Quotes

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Be careful of hubris about ideas—especially your own. Remember always, that there is one commonality between all the good ideas that were ever created and all the bad ideas: The people you created them thought that they were good ideas.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.