Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Modesty and faith are both companions: when one is taken away the other is taken. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The best make up is a smile. The best jewelry is modesty. The best clothing is confidence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts! surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it -… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“I pulled my dress to my hips, bunching it there in a way I was sure must look awkward, but there was… — Valentine Glass Copy Share Image
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are. — Juan Manuel Fangio Copy Share Image
The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Keeping your profile in low self esteem is not modesty,Its way of self destruction. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
