Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I'm a humble guy, okay?

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

I'm very, very modest.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

I'm famously humble.

Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself.

"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..."

Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.

I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.

I've been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I'd be just a footnote.

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)

I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

If you can't make fun of yourself, you don't have any right to make fun of others

The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

You don't know anything, but I know even less.

Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

Least at thine own things laugh.

No matter what's offered to me, I would never in a million years be the big headed Hollywood type.