Modesty Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

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

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

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.

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

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?