Baltasar Gracian Quotes

I don't go for the flash and panache.

I'm never a flashy type of person.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

I've never been a much of a glamour girl.

I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.

I let my times speak for myself.

It's easy to be loud, outspoken, and play to the gallery. It's difficult to underplay one's self.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

I just want to be humble at all times.

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

I'm not much of a show-off.

I think I'm so low key.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

There's not a lot of flash about me.

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

I don't feel the need to be seen, to be glorified in any way.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

I have no great message to the world.

I am a woman of simple tastes.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.