Modesty Quotes

Modesty was made for the ugly.

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.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

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

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

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

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

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.

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.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

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.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

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

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, "Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here." I find it vaguely sinister, even.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Modesty is my best quality.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false 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.

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

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

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.