Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. — Mark Twain 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
“There are two kinds of humble people: (1) Humble people; and (2) broke people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it. — Yasuhiro Konishi Copy Share Image
Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub;… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
“I took a look out the window before I left the room, though, to see how all the perverts were doing, but… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Modesty is invisibility, said Aunt Lydia. Never forget it. To be seen – to be seen – is to be – her… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I go to therapy once a week, that helps a lot. I have a really supportive family. I have two little kids,… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And… — John Milton 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
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
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of… — Charles de Gaulle 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
“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
Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
