Humility Quote by Ian Hislop Download Open image “Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.” — Ian Hislop ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humility Inordinately Proud Modest Modesty National Modesty National pride Pride Pride Inordinately Proud Proud National
I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude. — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect. — Ian Hislop 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
