Feigned Humility Quotes & Sayings

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.
Why, Gillian, it's that very ability that makes us so superior. — Victoria Alexander

You cheated!"
He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. "I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation."
"And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness."
"Are you quoting the Bible to me?"
"Indeed," she said primly, the portrait of piousness.
"While gambling."
"What better location to attempt to reform one such as you? — Sarah MacLean