Self Deprecation Quotes

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

~ Carrie Fisher

Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This did not prevent him from having opinions on most things in sport.His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.

~ Archie Henderson

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

Lincoln said his spiky hair had a way of getting up in the world.

~ Harold Holzer

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

~ Oscar Wilde

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

~ Richard Baxter

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

~ Criss Jami

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

~ Charles M. Schulz

It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one drop of joy. But oh god was it delicious when it fell into her lap for a little while. (Such a pretty face) she muses (with such a bruised and battered soul). When the dawn of a promise fades into the dusk of reality, all that remains is the nightmare. Sweet, sweet loneliness. Shadows come to play and prey on her beaten mind. Her lovely little dreams of poison.

~ Solange Nicole

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

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

Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.

~ Norman Mailer

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.Scruples are alien to the black panther.Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.The self-critical jackal does not exist.The locust, alligator, trichina, horseflylive as they live and are glad of it.The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun.

~ Wisława Szymborska

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

~ Mordecai Richler

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

~ Bob Monkhouse

Goodness, I was already a dork most of the times. I didn't need to be a drunk or high dork.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

~ Amor Towles

I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I’ll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.

~ Marian Keyes

Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?

~ John Ringo