We must not confuse humility with false modesty or…

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Don't confuse humility with self-deprecation.”

— Anonymous

“Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.”

— Orrin Woodward

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which…

— Harriet Martineau

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

— Alex Kapranos

“There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics”

— Christopher Hitchens

I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable.

— Cheyenne Jackson

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

— Joseph Addison

There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own…

— Max Shulman

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

— Sebastian Faulks

“Besides, I'm not going to let you go anywhere alone- you'll have every male in the vicinity pouncing on you." "Don't be silly," Annabelle…

— Lisa Kleypas

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…

— Rufus Wainwright

“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to…

— Olaf Stapledon

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

— William Makepeace Thackeray