Best 234 quotes in «modesty quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

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.

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

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.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Modesty was made for the ugly.

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.