Best 234 quotes in «modesty quotes» category

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

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.

I like working on one - camera. This is not false modesty, but I don't think I'm very good at three - camera. And it's not that I'm nervous, but I just sort of feel like my collar is too small, or my clothes don't fit. I don't understand what that is. And I don't understand the format: There's an audience in front of you that you're playing to, but there are also these cameras.

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

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

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

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

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

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.

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

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.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.

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

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Modesty should accompany youth.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.