Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Modesty is virtue which enhances charm of ones personality & get up. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin Copy Share Image
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight… — Iain Glen Copy Share Image
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Maybe on day I can be just as lazy as you and turn off lights without moving.” “That’s something to aspire to.”… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy.… — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one... — Joey Dunlop Copy Share Image
![“I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy. It's funny, because I was the only one who is Catholic in it. You have this thing in mass where you have to genuflect before you go into the pew, so I said you have to do this [for a…” quote by Robin Tunney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6af/robin-tunney-21850_catholic_i-went-to-catholic-high-school-so-my-bei_1183398.jpg)
