Dennis Miller Quotes

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

If you are too proud, you don't do business.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

It's always nice to hear nice things, but I don't suddenly go out and think I'm the best thing since sliced bread.

I never want to get caught up in praises. Never want to get caught up in people telling me how good I am.

I am not often proud.

I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.

Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.