John Tillotson Quotes

What is modesty but inverted pride?

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

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

Modesty is my best quality.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

I'll downplay myself before I compliment myself.

If I'm too cocky or too arrogant, it's like, 'Ugh.' But if you're too on the other side, you take away some of those other emotional aspects, and I just kinda like to have a balance.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

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

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.