Modesty Quotes

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

Modesty is my best quality.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

"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 modesty as the other.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'