Best Quotes about 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.
Mandeville, Bernard
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Alcott, Louisa May
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help
Manners, Miss
Modesty is the color of virtue.
Diogenes of Sinope
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Hemingway, Ernest
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
Hazlitt, William
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
Be smart, but never show it.
Mayer, Louis B
So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Steele, Sir Richard
It's always well to be the smartest thinker, but is won't get you very far unless you're the plainest talker.
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Martineau, Harriet
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
Hazlitt, William
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Rostand, Jean
Act as though you cannot fail but keep a humble spirit.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Bruyere, Jean De La
Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
Proverb, Jewish
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
Girardin, Madame de
The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
Howe, Edgar Watson
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Seneca
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Colby, Frank Moore
She just wore enough for modesty; no more!
Buchanan, Robert
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Franklin, Benjamin
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
Shakespeare, William
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Gibran, Kahlil
Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Herford, Oliver
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jackson, Jesse
Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs.
Makris, Steve G.
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
Bevan, Aneurin
There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
Switzer, Maurice
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Sitwell, Dame Edith
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
Du Bois, William E. B.
Modesty is the beauty of women.
Proverb, Gaelic
Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Joubert, Joseph
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
Churchill, Winston
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
Horace
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
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