False Modesty Quotes

'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

Sex, Important, Satisfied

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
David Mitchell

Arrogance, Worse, False

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

Music, False, Modesty

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

Conscience, False, Modesty

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 Legeti

Work, Home, Famous

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