Modesty Quotes · Page 14

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Sadly, our values are fast eroding. Modesty and honesty are ridiculed. Deception and cheating are on the rise. May the Almighty protect…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

— Richard Steele

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

— Martin Feldstein

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

— Jeremy Collier

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and…

— Kim Campbell

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward…

— William Penn

If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you…

— Debbie Ford

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments,…

— Jane Austen

“When I received the Culver Creek Handbook over the summer and noticed happily that the “Dress Code” section contained only two words,…

— John Green

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have…

— James Dobson

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you…

— Dannah Gresh

I really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the…

— Yuna

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty,…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“I pulled my dress to my hips, bunching it there in a way I was sure must look awkward, but there was…

— Valentine Glass

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those…

— Ada Leverson

“Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the…

— T.J. Bowes

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

— Louis Kronenberger

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous…

— Charles Krauthammer

“He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an…

— Maugham W. Somerset (William Somerset

“- Why you? - (...) I’m the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say…

— Paul Hoffman

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity…

— Cyrus the Great

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

— Saint Augustine

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was on stage last night, and I gave a medical report about Donald Trump. I said he was hospitalized for an…

— Mort Sahl

Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.

— Vladimir Horowitz

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

— Edith Sitwell

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

— Maureen Howard

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

— Noah Webster

Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

— Paulo Coelho

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

— Charles Richet

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

— Anonymous

Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.

— Paul of the Cross

“We're all under pressure Strangled by stresses If you treasure what you do have That's the success, that's most impressive”

— Andrew Edward Lucier

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

— D. H. Lawrence