Best 234 quotes in «modesty quotes» category

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

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

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

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

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Praise thyself never.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

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

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Accepting help shames only the arrogant.