[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

-Jonson, Ben
 Bartholomew Fair, Induction.

The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.18.

As for conceit, what man will do any good who is not conceited? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Orley Farm, ch.22.