False Modesty Quotes
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False Modesty Quotes & Sayings
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The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
— George Orwell
False modesty is evidence of secret pride, Mr. Winterborne
— Lisa Kleypas
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
— Sri Chinmoy
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
— Tony Dungy
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
— David Mitchell
False modesty is never admirable, and least of all among those who command others.
— Christopher Paolini
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
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
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.
— Edward Gibbon
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
— Jean De La Bruyere
When you know who you are, you won't have false modesty
— Sunday Adelaja
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
— Barry Hannah
False modesty is better than none.
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no
politics like antipolitics — Christopher Hitchens
politics like antipolitics — Christopher Hitchens
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
— Joseph Addison
Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
— Joseph Addison
To the devil with false modesty.
— Stephen King
The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
— Sebastian Faulks