A Quote by Dominic Holland

I don't like false modesty.

Dominic Holland

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False False Modesty Like Modesty

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Dominic Holland
English - Comedian
Born: June 8, 1967

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

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

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

Sri Chinmoy

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Joseph Addison

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

C. S. Lewis

To the devil with false modesty.

Stephen King

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Sebastian Faulks

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

Nicolas Chamfort

False modesty is better than none.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

Edward Gibbon

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

David Mitchell

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

Jean de la Bruyere

I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty.