False Modesty Quotes
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False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
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I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable.
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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.
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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.
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I go to therapy once a week, that helps a lot. I have a really supportive family. I have two little kids, I'm married, I live close to my parents, my brother and his wife. I don't socialize a lot. I work and I have my kids, basically. I'm just, I would say, with all false modesty aside, I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
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I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
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One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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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.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
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False modesty is better than none.
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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.
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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!
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A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.
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True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
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The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
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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.
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To the devil with false modesty.
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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.
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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.
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