| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | I was not born for Courts or great affairs, I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs. |
| Alexander Pope | The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. |
| Alexander Pope | We are ashamed of everything that is real about us, ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. |
| Alexander Pope | I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs. |
| Alexander Pope | The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. |
| Alexander Pope | We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. |
| Charles Dickens | I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may. |
| Charles Dickens | 'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. |
| Charles Hadden Spurgeon | Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that. |
| Charles Hadden Spurgeon | The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. |
| Helen Nielsen | Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. |
| James Montgomery | Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. |
| James Montgomery | Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. |
| John Keble | God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. |
| Michael Eyquen de Montaigne | One may be humble out of pride. |
| Michel de Montaigne | One may be humble out of pride. |
| Nikki Giovanni | show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person |
| Philip James Bailey | Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. |
| Saadi | The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. |
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