Top 40 Quotes About False Modesty
#1. Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other
Marquis De Sade
#2. Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau
#3. False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.
Jean De La Bruyere
#4. A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.
Edward Gibbon
#7. True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
C.S. Lewis
#8. I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.
Lauren Bacall
#9. There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!
Max Shulman
#11. With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dead inside, and dangerous.
Olaf Stapledon
#12. False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
Tony Dungy
#14. The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.
Rufus Wainwright
#16. There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
Jean De La Bruyere
#17. False modesty is evidence of secret pride, Mr. Winterborne
Lisa Kleypas
#18. False modesty is as bad as false pride. Know exactly what you are capable of at any moment, and act accordingly. Any other path is folly - and could be deadly in battle.
Christie Golden
#19. True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
Joseph Addison
#20. It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#21. Who anger, nor joy, nor pride, nor false modesty, nor stupefaction, nor vanity,
Can draw away from the high ends of life, is ever considered wise certainly.
[20] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#22. One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
Sri Chinmoy
#23. Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#25. When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
Claude Bernard
#26. Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmth crept up Shahrzad's neck. "Knows about what?"
Despina grinned. "The Caliph of Khorasan going into the gardens at dawn alone. And returning with a single rose.
Renee Ahdieh
#27. When you know who you are, you won't have false modesty
Sunday Adelaja
#28. There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no
politics like antipolitics
Christopher Hitchens
#29. False modesty is never admirable, and least of all among those who command others.
Christopher Paolini
#30. Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Paulo Coelho
#31. Have you ever considered making at least a pretense of humility, Mr. Hunt? Just for the sake of politeness?
"I don't believe in false modesty."
"People might like you more if you did."
"Would you?
Lisa Kleypas
#32. I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
Alex Kapranos
#34. There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.
Anne McCaffrey
#35. Ah. Ah! A man of modesty, either so false that it may be true or so true that it seems entirely false. I can see why Bayard speaks so well of you, sir.
Jim Butcher
#36. Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".
Ron Suskind
#37. Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
Joseph Addison
#38. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know;
William Shakespeare
#39. Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.
Edith Wharton
#40. Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths.
William Shakespeare
