A Quote by Sebastian Faulks

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Sebastian Faulks

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False False Modesty Modesty Thunder

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Sebastian Faulks
British - Novelist
Born: April 20, 1953

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

I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.