Modesty Quotes
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
His modesty amounts to deformity. (Quote by - Margot Asquith)
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment. (Quote by - Kim Campbell)
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. (Quote by - Mary Wortley Montagu)
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)
In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United. (Quote by - Matt Busby)
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself. (Quote by - Maurice Switzer)
Give place to your betters. (Quote by - Publius Terentius Afer)
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty (Quote by - Herodotus)
She just wore Enough for modesty - no more White Rose and Red. (Quote by - Robert Buchanan)
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. (Quote by - Bernard de Mandeville)
Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives. (Quote by - Marietta Holley)
Modesty forbids what the law does not. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty (Quote by - Suzanne Curchod Necker)
He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. (Quote by - James Thomson)
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty. (Quote by - Roger Moore)
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might, Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. (Quote by - John Milton)
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. (Quote by - Akhenaton)
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. (Quote by - Harriet Martineau)
Modesty becomes a young man. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. (Quote by - Oliver Herford )
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. (Quote by - Paul Goodman)
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. (Quote by - Confucius)
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. (Quote by - Gyorgy Legeti)
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple. (Quote by - Jean Claude Van Damme)
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness. (Quote by - Ninon de Lenclos)
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat. (Quote by - Michel De Montaigne)
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
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. (Quote by - Arthur Helps)
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. (Quote by - Richard Steele)
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more. (Quote by - Linda Chavez)
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. (Quote by - Wilfred Burchett)
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. (Quote by - Franz Grillparzer)
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. (Quote by - Alexander Alekhine)
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. (Quote by - Robert South)
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Modesty is the color of virtue. (Quote by - Diogenes of Sinope)
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help (Quote by - Miss Manners)
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. (Quote by - Hector Berlioz)
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. (Quote by - Charles Williams)
When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Modesty is the conscience of the body. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. (Quote by - Nam June Paik)
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever (Quote by - Walter Landor)
Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense. (Quote by - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon)
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion. (Quote by - Major Taylor)
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee. (Quote by - Tom Glazer )
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.(Quote by - Cicero)
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
Modesty is my best quality. (Quote by - Jack Benny)
Modesty and chastity are twins (Quote by - Anna Brownell Jameson)
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. (Quote by - Sarah Fielding)
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. (Quote by - William Law)
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. (Quote by - Louis Kronenberger)
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)
The modesty's a candle to thy merit. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. (Quote by - Jeremy Collier)
