See also Tact.
CONCEIT
The small girl was at the table drawing, and her mother asked her what the picture was to be.
"God," replied the child simply.
"But you can't draw God," protested the mother, "because you have never seen Him; no one has ever seen Him and no one knows what He looks like."
The small girl licked her pencil and put in another touch. "They'll all know when I finish this," she said.
A young lady once asked Oscar Wilde to give her a list of the one hundred greatest books ever written.