Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of humble people: (1) Humble people; and (2) broke people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
“- Why you? - (...) I’m the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If there’s one quality I hate in a woman, it’s modesty. Besides making me, with my trombone mouth, feel vaguely uncouth, I… — Emily Carter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“I pulled my dress to my hips, bunching it there in a way I was sure must look awkward, but there was… — Valentine Glass Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Alex was right in front of the mantel now, bent forward, his nose mere inches from a picture of me. "Oh,God. Don't… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
“I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude. — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
