Modesty Quotes · Page 12

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

— Jules Breton

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one...

— Joey Dunlop

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

— Anonymous

Modesty is true beauty 'cause true beauty isn't flaunted.

— Raghib Clitso

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

— Napoleon Hill

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

— Publilius Syrus

Modesty is virtue which enhances charm of ones personality & get up.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

— John Henry Newman

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

— Yves Saint Laurent

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.

— Tony Dungy

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

— Wim Wenders

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

— George Washington

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

— Horace

Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True…

— J.R. Miller

For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and…

— Arthur Helps

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress…

— Pope Pius XI

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest…

— Louisa May Alcott

By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can…

— Robert Macfarlane

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if…

— Tom Glazer

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…

— Thomas Adams

“Most people live their entire lives with their clothes on, and even if they wanted to, couldn't take them off. Then there…

— Sheila Heti

Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Sophie knew that 'modesty' was an old-fashioned word for shyness - for example, about being seen naked. But was it really natural…

— Jostein Gaarder

What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that…

— Asra Nomani

The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his…

— Gail Caldwell

“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of…

— Anonymous

Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no…

— Henry David Thoreau

I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy.…

— Robin Tunney

“This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

— Louisa May Alcott

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

— Remy de Gourmont

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

— Benjamin Franklin

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

— Margaret of Valois

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

— Paul Gigot