Modesty Quotes

I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable.

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

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

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

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

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

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

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

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

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Virtue which shuns, the day.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

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

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'