Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Quotes

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

I'm not witty.

I don't gossip about myself.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This is what I believe in and I'm comfortable with that and I can make a joke here and there.

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.

I don't like false modesty.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

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

I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

One may be humble out of pride.

No, I don't see many movies. I don't even see my own movies.