Augustus Hare Quotes

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

One may be humble out of pride.

I don't like false modesty.

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.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

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

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

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.

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

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

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

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

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.

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

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

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

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

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