Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

I don't like false modesty.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

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

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

One may be humble out of pride.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.