Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Modesty... consists in pretending not to think better of ourselves and our belongings than of the man we are speaking to and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty,… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“You have still to learn,’ said Jasper, ‘that modesty helps a man in no department of modern life. People take you at… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“I'm not modest,' she said last year. 'I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most people live their entire lives with their clothes on, and even if they wanted to, couldn't take them off. Then there… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is to discuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is… — Munindra Misra 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
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
“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
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal. — Zach Hunter Copy Share Image
“Genuine modesty looks best on the genuinely important.” — Richard Christian Matheson Copy Share Image
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
