Modesty Quotes

412 quotes by 301 authors

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. — C.S. Lewis
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men,… — Belva Ann Lockwood
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false… — Marquis de Sade
True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to… — Vincent of Lerins
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. — Herodotus
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race… — Samuel Johnson
Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes… — Kirkpatrick Sale
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature… — Frank O'Hara
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that… — Hugh B. Brown
Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting,… — Guru Nanak
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if… — Nam June Paik
Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy. — Remy de Gourmont
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. — C.S. Lewis
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy… — Richard Baxter
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they… — Thomas Love Peacock
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them. — Paul Gauguin
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President,… — Joshua Chamberlain
Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. — William Shakespeare
Modesty was made for the ugly. — Theophile Gautier
In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United. — Matt Busby

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