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Self Deprecation Quotes & Sayings

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Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God. — Philip Zaleski

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

Do you have any idea how attractive you are?
Well, I'm better than roseanne Barr, I suppose. — Lucy Robinson

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution. — Margaret Cho

She was exhausted from her own self-deprecation and inner turmoil. — Kimberly Derting

Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)? — Richard Baxter

Don't confuse humility with self-deprecation. — N.D. Walsch

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

The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55). — Richard Baxter

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world". — Harold Holzer

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

But it doesn't make sense for you to love me... — Stephenie Meyer

Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed. — Iain M. Banks

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

Mine, is a wicked world of pure fascinastion. — Carroll Bryant

So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet. — Sarah Dessen

I couldn't buy the lice off a sick cat, the cabbie answered from the very depths of self-deprecation. — Nelson Algren

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

Virtue should always be colmingled with humor. — Patrick O'Brian

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

Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome. — Norman Mailer

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)? — Richard Baxter

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything. — Charles M. Schulz

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

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

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

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

Comedy is basically self-deprecation. — Hannibal Buress