Modesty Quotes

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.'

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

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.

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

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.