Beneath the gentle modesty of his behavior lay the absolute assurance of a born artist.
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Peter Brook, Threads of Time: Recollections (Basic Books, 1998, ISBN 1582430187), p. 29Paul Scofield
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Better the absence of greatness than the establishing of a false greatness by assumed humility. Not only do these efforts at humility on man's part not express strength, they are, on the contrary, expressions of modesty born of weakness, which springs from a lack of knowledge of the truth of Reality.
Beware of modesty. Modesty, under the cloak of humility, invariably leads one into the clutches of self-deception. Modesty breeds egoism, and man eventually succumbs to pride through assumed humility.
The greatest greatness and the greatest humility go hand in hand naturally and without effort.Meher Baba
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
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.
Harriet Martineau
A gaudy dress and gentle air
May slightly touch the heart;
But it's innocence and modesty
that polished the dart.Robert Burns
But in my best behavior, I am really just like him
Look beneath the floorboards, for the secrets I have hid.Sufjan Stevens
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