Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

I can’t talk about myself that way. Whatever I did before was just in line with my work. I can’t be saying I, I, I all the time.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'

You never toot your own horn.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth

Even I can't talk about myself for an hour.

I was brought up not to brag. I've always disliked people who do.

The way I rap isn't about me boasting. Rarely will I do that.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.