Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

I'm not much of a show-off.

I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.

He learned too much and too early that victory goes to the discreet, that one does not speak one's opinion, that ideally one does not even develop one's opinion.

I am a woman of simple tastes.

The key to survival is that when times are good you don't forget where you came from and you don't build crazy overhead just because you can. You live like you are going out of business every day and it makes you healthy.

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

For me, generally speaking, I don't like to make a big deal out of stuff.

I'm never a flashy type of person.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is my best quality.

I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.