Self-mockery Quotes

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him. (Don DeLillo)
What more could you need?” I smiled in self-mockery. "Reassurance, I suppose.” "That must come from your own judgment, from your own testing of your conscience. It is the only kind of reassurance worth having, as I'm sure you would agree. View quote
Michael Moorcock