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
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
Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse -… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never… — Lauren Bacall 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
I like working on one - camera. This is not false modesty, but I don't think I'm very good at three -… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more than enough.” — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself. — Adam Grant 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
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
