Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.” — Anonymous 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
Modesty is not weakness, it reflects strength of inner beauty.It encompass both body & heart. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the… — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. — William E. Woodward 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
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity,… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust… The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both… — John Wesley 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
The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
“At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“By valuing modesty we are essentially choosing to live humbly so that our lives may reflect our Father instead of pointing to… — Tyler Braun Copy Share Image
If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others. — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons. — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
“There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If one loves to hear 'Praises' then one should be able to adapt with Sarcasm, though being bitter, sarcasm has a path… — Nidhi Saini Copy Share Image
To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester… — Matt Busby Copy Share Image
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
