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False modesty can be worse than arrogance. -- David Mitchell
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. -- Alex Kapranos
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. -- Paulo Coelho
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
'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. -- Marquis de Sade
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. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
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. -- Rufus Wainwright
I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen. -- Lauren Bacall
To the devil with false modesty. -- Stephen King
False modesty is better than none. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The thunder of false modesty was deafening. -- Sebastian Faulks
Of lies, false modesty is the most decent. -- Nicolas Chamfort
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. -- C. S. Lewis
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride. -- Edward Gibbon
We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. -- Paulo Coelho
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie. -- Jean de la Bruyere
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. -- Joseph Addison
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others. -- Tony Dungy
I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable. -- Cheyenne Jackson
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility. -- Sri Chinmoy
Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. -- Joseph Addison
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. -- Marquis de Sade
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
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! -- Max Shulman

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