Clive James Quotes

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

I can always tell how stupid someone is by how certain they are about what they're saying.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

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

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.