Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

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

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

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

I don't choose to be humble.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

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.

One may be humble out of pride.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

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

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

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

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

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

I'm not great enough to be humble.