The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them. — Paulo Coelho 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 wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty. — Charles Richet Copy Share Image
Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott 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
It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best… — Isak Dinesen 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
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
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know — Tariq Ramadan 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
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
