Top 44 Quotes About Self Deprecation
#1. She was exhausted from her own self-deprecation and inner turmoil.
Kimberly Derting
#2. Music had been his undoing, he told the boy in ironic self-deprecation. His bane and his salvation. It had gotten him through tough times that would have otherwise been unbearable and it had made everything else he had gone at twice as hard.
William Gay
#3. There is power born of humility ... Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.
Richie Norton
#4. John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.
David Pietrusza
#5. First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care how much I weigh.
Jeff Garlin
#6. I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.
Margaret Cho
#7. In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
Zachary Lazar
#8. My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.
Garance Dore
#9. Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.
Philip Zaleski
#10. We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.
Chris Stapleton
#11. One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.
Stephen Rodrick
#12. I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount of self-loathing but because I'm in show business it's considered self-deprecation. In normal life I would just be considered your average neurotic.
Jon Stewart
#13. I couldn't buy the lice off a sick cat, the cabbie answered from the very depths of self-deprecation.
Nelson Algren
#14. In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious ways ...
Maureen Dezell
#15. Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
Mordecai Richler
#16. But this time, so far as I can tell, my mother has not made her husband her desire incarnate, though she does love him very much. And for his part, so far as I can tell, he doesn't try to talk her out of her self-deprecation, nor does he abet it. He simply loves her. I am learning from him.
Maggie Nelson
#17. Humility is in reality the opposite of self-deprecation. It is the grateful recognition that we are precious in God's eyes and that all we are is pure gift.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#18. Don't confuse humility with self-deprecation.
N.D. Walsch
#20. All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Samuel Johnson
#21. After years of self deprecating behavior, I've never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue with him, to tell him there's nothing special about me.
Brynna Gabrielson
#22. Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.
Norman Mailer
#23. The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).
Richard Baxter
#24. Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
Charles Dickens
#25. Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?
John Ringo
#27. All the shitty stuff people do to themselves ... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.
Isaac Marion
#28. The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).
Richard Baxter
#29. In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.
Mordecai Richler
#30. Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?
Richard Baxter
#31. Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)?
Richard Baxter
#32. I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
Abraham Lincoln
#33. Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed.
Iain M. Banks
#34. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
#35. They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.
Bob Monkhouse
#39. So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.
Sarah Dessen
#40. Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".
Harold Holzer
#41. Do you have any idea how attractive you are?
Well, I'm better than roseanne Barr, I suppose.
Lucy Robinson
#42. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.
Charlie Brooker
#43. There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
Carrie Fisher
#44. Goodness, I was already a dork most of the times. I didn't need to be a drunk or high dork.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
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