Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

There's a breed of humility which is itself a species of showing off.

I was never able to master the virtue of humility but I was able to master the appearance of humility.

I don't like false modesty.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.