Affair Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

— Confucius

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

— Jonathan Swift

Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support,…

— Noah Webster

Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you off. Does…

— Michael Wolff

“Men who, in the best of circumstances and with all the ability to dictate all that would have been just, fine, and good for…

— Emmanuel Sieyés

“On principle' a man can do anything, take part in anything and himself remain inhuman and indeterminate. 'On principle' a man may interest himself…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“A substantial good drawn from a real evil, is of the same benefit to society as if drawn from a virtue; and where men…

— Thomas Paine

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued…

— William Hazlitt

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche