Abraham Cowley Quotes

I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I'd much rather talk about other things.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

I think, as a country, that we can be quite harsh on ourselves.

It's an uncomfortable thing to talk about myself, in general.

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.