Sing on, with hymns uproarious, Ye humble and aloof, Look up! and oh, how glorious He has restored the roof!

-Betjeman, SirJohn
Mount Zion,'Hymn'.

He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low no pride. He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.

-Bunyan,John
  The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.2.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

-Cowper,William
  The Task, bk.6,'The Winter  Walk at Noon', l.96^7.

Iam well awarethat Iam theumblest person going† My mother is likewise a very umble person.We live in a numble abode.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^50  Uriah Heep. David Copperfield, ch.16.

We are so very umble.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^50  Uriah Heep. David Copperfield, ch.17.

Since no normal humble man can help but feel magnificent in a brand-new suit of clothes, it is not surprising that those who don a fresh suit of bright white linen every day should feel magnificent always. Nor is it surprising that a normal humble head should swell beneath a solar topee, since a topee is more a badge of authority than a hat, as is the hat of a soldier.

-Herbert, Xavier
  Capricornia,'Psychological Effect of a Solar Topee'.

They have spoken lightly of my deathless friends, (Lamps for my gloom, handsguiding where I stumble,) Quoting, for shallow conversational ends, What Shelley shrilled, what Blake once wildly muttered† How can they use such names and be not humble?

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  The Heart'sJourney, pt.15,'Grandeur of Ghosts'.

The humble people of Cambodia are the most wonderful in the world.Their great misfortune is that theyalwayshaveterrible leaders who makethemsuffer.I am not sure I was much better myself, but perhaps I was the least bad.

-Sihanouk, Prince Norodom
  In an interview withWilliam Shawcross, author of Sideshow (1979).

Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heav'n, to earth come down, Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown. Jesu, thou art all compassion, Pure unbounded love thou art; Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart.

-Wesley, Charles
  'Love Divine', collected in Hymns for those that seek†Redemption.