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
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 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 Dickens
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 beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
- Saadi
God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
- John Keble
show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
- Nikki Giovanni
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
- Philip James Bailey
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.
- Charles Hadden Spurgeon
When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
- Unknown
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.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One may be humble out of pride.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
- Thomas Moore
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw
Humble things become the humble.
- Horatius Flaccus
Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.
- James Montgomery
Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
- Helen Nielsen
Give place to your betters.
- Terence Afer
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
- James Montgomery
