William Cowper Quotes

I don't choose to be humble.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I don't like false modesty.

I always thought that I wasn't the type of person to show off my cuteness.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.