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I don't like false modesty.
To the devil with false modesty.
False modesty is better than none.
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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 believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.
I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.