I wouldn't dare contort my face into the hideous mess you see here if I were even 2% less attractive than I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In England, we're brought up to think 'don't get too big for your boots.' We prize modesty. I'd never fly into Heathrow… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I go to therapy once a week, that helps a lot. I have a really supportive family. I have two little kids,… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Modesty is invisibility, said Aunt Lydia. Never forget it. To be seen – to be seen – is to be – her… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I took a look out the window before I left the room, though, to see how all the perverts were doing, but… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub;… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique--our featherless bipedality, our… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in… — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
![“Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.” quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/581/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_absurdity_had-this-author-sir-w-drummond-academica_2448856.jpg)
