The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

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.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Humility is attentive patience.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.