Humility Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image ““... Modesty is Vanity's craftier stepbrother.”” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humility
“When you only have one vanity, I think you’re allowed to indulge it.)” — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
“You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I love how sincere she is. She makes a mannequin look like Mother Theresa, though she looks better naked. And I hope she thinks… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But, like all indulgences that are valued not just for their product but for their process, the sento will never entirely disappear. For in… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorgan but in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you… — Venkat Gandhi Copy Share Image
I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and inherit the earth... without taxes” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Rukmini Devi was an icon for all the Bharat Natyam students at Kalakshetra. I grew up watching her at dance school and I associate… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
