Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I am not saying I don't think I'm good, but I'm not the type of player to have an ego or big myself up.

I don't choose to be humble.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

If I talk about what I'm good at, I seem like I'm a conceited egomaniac.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

I am egotistical, that I won't deny...I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good...but I know that I don't appeal to everybody.

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.