Self Deprecation Quotes

Sometimes, we feel less than others, don't we? We find ourselves downplaying our achievements, or mocking our own abilities even before anyone else does. It's a habit, or perhaps a shield, to avoid greater disappointment, or to receive words of comfort. This is self-deprecation.

It's a strange feeling, as if you see yourself through a magnifying glass for flaws. You wonder: Is this humility? Or fear? Or just a way to avoid the spotlight?

Every one of these quotes is a whisper, an echo, or a glimmer of light in the labyrinth of this complex feeling: humility, shame, and how we truly see ourselves.

Quote by Robin Williams: I feel like I'm a big human snot....
Quote by Ronald Reagan: I'm not smart enough to lie...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: If my jeans could talk, they'd plead for mercy....
Quote by Jane Austen: I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female...
Quote by Robin Williams: I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance....
Quote by William Shakespeare: I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: If it weren't for my adam's apple, I'd have no shape at all....
Quote by Mark Twain: I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of ...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an esti...
Quote by Eminem: I was born a premature birth.My first words were
Quote by Dave Barry: To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you ca...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well,...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core....
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. ...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: My body's in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office....
Quote by Mark Twain: Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mis...
Quote by Mark Twain: I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increase...
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me...
Quote by Mark Twain: I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55....
Quote by Nicholas Sparks: I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired....
Quote by Rita Rudner: I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident....
Quote by Ray Bradbury: If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself....
Quote by William Shakespeare: There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45,...
Quote by Zig Ziglar: I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible....
Quote by Barack Obama: My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up....
Quote by Kurt Cobain: I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection....
Quote by Lou Holtz: We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you...
Quote by Robin Williams: I was a serious method actor until I visited this site....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight....
Quote by Charles Dickens: We are so very 'umble....
Quote by Richard Wagner: I know absolutely nothing about music....
Quote by Groucho Marx: If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet....
Quote by Charles Dickens: You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and ...
Quote by Mitch Hedberg: If you want to talk to me after the show, I'd be surprised....
Quote by Rita Rudner: I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me....
Quote by Tim Vine: I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can...
Quote by Winston Churchill: I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality...
Quote by Richard Wagner: I know nothing at all about music....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown....
Quote by William Butler Yeats: Laughter not time destroyed my voiceAnd put that crack in it,And when the moon's pot-belliedI get a ...
Quote by Kurt Cobain: I have very bad posture....
Quote by Will Rogers: All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I always wondered how I could tell when the right one came along - but it was easy. He was the only ...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, What do you have in lingerie? She says, More than you'll e...
Quote by Mark Twain: I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on....
Quote by Mitch Hedberg: People ask me for my autograph after a show. I'm not famous, I think they're messing with me. I thin...
Quote by Barack Obama: Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton a...
Quote by Ronald Reagan: I am not a scientist....
Quote by Mark Twain: I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invente...
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless co...
Quote by Kurt Cobain: I like to complain and do nothing to make things better....
Quote by Charles Dickens:
Quote by Tupac Shakur: Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority ...