Lev Grossman Quotes

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

I think I'm so low key.

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

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Always sing below your potential.

I have no great message to the world.

I see no point in talking about myself unnecessarily.

Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

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

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

A modest man never talks of himself.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Be smart, but never show it.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Modesty and dew love the shade.