Margaret Deland Quotes

I'm quite a shy person, and I dislike narcissism intensely.

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

I don't like to talk about myself that much.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.

I don't like being in the limelight. It is not something extraordinary. It is just my habit.

I like to just be humble. The more interviews, the more embarrassed I kind of get.

I'm not driven by fame or success. I'm quite a shy, introverted person, and I could easily melt away into the background.

I do not want to be the center of attention. I think it's just the way I was raised; the way my parents were.

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

I don't like talking about myself. I find it a lot easier talking about other people.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.