Modesty Quotes · Page 17

“Every man appreciates modesty in a woman just like the way every woman celebrates a man of generosity.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Modesty is an admirable quality, but it shouldn't be confused with insecurity or self-doubt.”

— Sofia Malamas

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

— John Dryden

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with…

— Michel de Montaigne

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

— Margaret Deland

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

— Maya Angelou

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed…

— Joseph Addison

Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at…

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum…

— Margaret Cho

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is…

— Francine Pascal

“It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique--our featherless bipedality, our…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't…

— Olaf Stapledon

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in…

— Gad Elmaleh

God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I…

— E. Lockhart

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed…

— Joseph Addison

Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seento be seenis to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

— Margaret Atwood

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

— Conrad Aiken

“True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

— Tariq Ramadan

“Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed…

— Anne Lamott

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

— Maya Angelou

No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable…

— Wyndham Lewis

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

— Roald Dahl

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want…

— Robert Farrar Capon

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

— Paul Gauguin

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness…

— William Law

“Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more than enough.”

— G.A. Aiken

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

“We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our…

— Karl Popper

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

— Anonymous

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

— Charles Richet

Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.

— Paul of the Cross

“We're all under pressure Strangled by stresses If you treasure what you do have That's the success, that's most impressive”

— Andrew Edward Lucier