Quotes of: False-modesty Keyword

Truth is more important than modesty

Roald Dahl

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Richard Steele

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Joseph Addison

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

Liza Minnelli

Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.

Debasish Mridha

Finally, another large-scale study [of false rape allegations] was conducted in Australia, with the 850 rapes reported to the Victoria police between 2000 and 2003 (Heenan & Murray, 2006). Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, the research...

Love

How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.

The False Princess

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare

Better an honest smack in the face than a false kiss.

Israeli

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

Karl Lagerfeld

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Robert South

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

Saint Bernard

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Roger Moore

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Confucius

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.

P. Remes

False accusations of rape are a form of rape itself. . . . . The power to falsely accuse a man of rape is a coveted power that permits women to destroy a man with a mere accusation . . . . notwithstanding widespread propaganda to the contrary, the re...

Female Sex Predators: A Crime Epidemic

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made d...

Gaudy Night

Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch of the process of overcoming one's own innate sense that things are inherently produced. The innate non-analytical in...

Meditation on Emptiness

If a poor man finds a penny, it is probably a false one.

Russian

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

One False Note