Clothes Quote by Robert B. Laughlin

I had a very modest upbringing.

— Balthazar Getty

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

— Ronnie Dunn

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

— Maya Angelou

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

— Honore de Balzac

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

— Paulo Coelho

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

— Georges Bataille

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of…

— Aristotle

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very…

— Tan France

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

— Grace Paley

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

— Augustus William Hare

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

— Ada Leverson