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.
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.
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
I don't like false modesty.
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.
False modesty is better than none.
False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.