Clive Barker Quotes

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie.

No man is a hero to his valet.

Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

My wife says to me, 'You have achieved a lot'... yeah, I do know. But... there are a couple of things I haven't.

I don't like false modesty.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.