“Don't confuse humility with self-deprecation.”
“One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.”
“We make a messed-up pair, don't we?""The soldier and the junkie," Daniel said with a self deprecating chuckle."Ex-soldier and ex-junkie," Sam corrected him. "We're getting there.”
“Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.”
“In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious ways ... ”
“Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.”