Modesty Quotes - Page 4

False modesty is better than none.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

Praise thyself never.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

By the virtue of modesty the devout person governs all his exterior acts. With good reason, then, does St. Paul recommend this virtue to all and declare how necessary it is and as if this were not enough he considers that this virtue should be obvious to all.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

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.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.