Best 234 quotes in «modesty quotes» category

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

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

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

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

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

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.

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

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.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.