Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the… — T.J. Bowes Copy Share Image
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and… — Kim Campbell 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
With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can… — Robert Macfarlane 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
“False modesty is as bad as false pride. Know exactly what you are capable of at any moment, and act accordingly. Any… — Christie Golden 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
“Your efforts to instil either vainglory or false modesty into the patient will therefore be met from the Enemy’s side with the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 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
![“[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character…” quote by Yasmin Mogahed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aeb/yasmin-mogahed-1335_beauty_a-letter-to-the-culture-that-raised-me-i_352042.jpg)
