Modest Quotes - Page 2

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Modesty is the highest elegance

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

A modest woman has good children.

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

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.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

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

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

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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

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.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

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

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.