Citations:humility


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I told him, moreover, that as to this valley, he had quite misrepresented the thing; for before honour is humility, and a haughty spirit before a fall.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "You must have been very slow about it, Jacob," Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with humility and deference.