At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty. — Robert Clive Copy Share Image
“Modesty be damned, I'm done caring whether other Mormons will be offended by the sight of my midriff.” — Nicole Hardy Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was… — John Heilpern Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“When I received the Culver Creek Handbook over the summer and noticed happily that the “Dress Code” section contained only two words,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue -… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“By valuing modesty we are essentially choosing to live humbly so that our lives may reflect our Father instead of pointing to… — Tyler Braun Copy Share Image
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Genuine modesty looks best on the genuinely important.” — Richard Christian Matheson Copy Share Image
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
