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.
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
'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.
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.
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.
There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.
And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a sort of false pride--shyness--timorous modesty? I us...
Modesty is the beauty of women.
Death has no modesty.
With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dead inside, and dangerous.
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.
Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.
A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
When wine comes in, modesty leaves.
Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
