A Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Diffidence False False Modesty Modesty Sort

Quote Author

William Makepeace Thackeray
English - Novelist
July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863

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

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

Alex Kapranos

Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

Dean Koontz

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

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Walter Savage Landor

I don't like false modesty.

Dominic Holland

To the devil with false modesty.

Stephen King

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Alexander Pope

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Sebastian Faulks

I like working on one - camera. This is not false modesty, but I don't think I'm very good at three - camera. And it's not that I'm nervous, but I just sort of feel like my collar is too small, or my clothes don't fit. I don't understand what that is. And I don't understand the format: There's an audience in front of you that you're playing to, but there are also these cameras.