Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative… — Tan France Copy Share Image
Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.” — Alex Irvine Copy Share Image
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
If you want to be treated like a lady, quit dressing like a hoe but dress like a lady. — Tony Nguyen Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is… — Laurence Sterne 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
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances… — Pope Pius XII 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
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
