Conceit

• “Like Girl With a Pearl Earring, Conceit is a vivid and intelligent novel with a complex female character at its heart.”

  April 2008

• “Conceit is the proud privilege of youth; and Monckton Milnes had a justifiable share of that great gift of the imperturbable gods.”

  Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters

• “Yet many People are so fond of this Conceit, that is sometimes a difficult matter to read modern Books and Pamphlets, where the Words are so curtailed, and varied from their original Spelling, that whoever hath been used to plain English, will hardly know them by sight.”

  A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue

• “Really, Nannie," he said, "if one were ill with that horrid disease called Conceit, a quiet half hour with you on the deck of a boat would restore him to health.”

  The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives

• “I find likewise among the Ancients that ingenious kind of Conceit, which the Moderns distinguish by the Name of a _Rebus_, [2] that does not sink”

  The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays

• “Conceit' as a verb occurs again in III, i, 193, and in”

  The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar

• “More precisely, in The Fatal Conceit Hayek traces it more precisely to Saint-Simon, although he does see Saint-Simon as representing the Cartesian tradition.”

  Hayek and Anti-capitalist Intellectuals, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Peaceful dispute resolution is a self-organizing system, which facilitates the expansion of activity (see Hayek - Fatal Conceit).”

  A Theory of Government, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “But here's an interesting quotation from Hayek's The Fatal Conceit (1988):”

  MRV update, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Hayek wrote in "The Fatal Conceit" that intelligent people place far too much importance on, and faith in, intelligence; they should show more humility and respect the wisdom of generations found in the traditions and institutions that have taken centuries to create.”

  Leaving the Church of Democracy: What's It Gonna Take?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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