Modesty Quotes

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

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

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

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

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

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, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

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

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.

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

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.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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.

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

Modesty is my best quality.

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.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

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

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

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

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

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.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

"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.

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