pretentious modesty Quotes

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

What is more arrogant than honesty?

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.