Clearness Quote by William Shakespeare

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

— Anonymous

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

— George Herbert

“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ…

— G.K. Chesterton

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we…

— Gustave Flaubert

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

— Lactantius

There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of…

— James Madison

We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making…

— Derek Landy

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

— Jean Rostand

Honor modesty more than your life.

— Aeschylus

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

— Julian of Norwich

We have to be more modest in what we claim.

— Kenneth Arrow