Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

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

If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance.

Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.

Humility has the toughest hide.

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.