Modesty Quotes · Page 8

Modesty died when clothes were born.

— Mark Twain

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

— Francis Bacon

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

— Robert South

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

— Paulo Coelho

Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.

— Tariq Ramadan

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

— Herodotus

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

“This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

— George Washington

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

— Wim Wenders

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

— Horace

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

— Oliver Herford

So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he…

— Jack Reynor

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— Thomas Jefferson

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

— Yves Saint Laurent

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.

— Tony Dungy

“At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket…

— Marcel Proust

When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all…

— Claude Bernard

Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead…

— William Shakespeare

False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“I am she that men call Modesty. Virgin I am and ever shall be. Not for me the fruitful fields and the…

— Virginia Woolf

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And…

— Elvis Costello

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is…

— Mark Twain

We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even…

— Ratan Tata

Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to…

— Saint Francis de Sales

I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy.…

— Robin Tunney

Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman…

— William Hazlitt

True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be…

— Vincent of Lerins

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;…

— William Shakespeare

“I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came…

— Charles Dickens

“Alex was right in front of the mantel now, bent forward, his nose mere inches from a picture of me. "Oh,God. Don't…

— Melissa Jensen

Modesty is virtue which enhances charm of ones personality & get up.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

— Benjamin Franklin

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

— Margaret of Valois

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

— Paul Gigot

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

— Louisa May Alcott

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

— Remy de Gourmont