So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women. — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
Wearing a low-cut, cleavage-revealing top is called suggestive. What does it suggest? That there is more than what you now see, and… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not… — William Devane Copy Share Image
Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
“the surplice and alb signify innocence; the cord that serves as a girdle is an emblem of chastity and modesty; the amice,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable. — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty. — Mesut Ozil Copy Share Image
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness… — William Law Copy Share Image
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