Modesty Quotes - Page 9

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

Virtue which shuns, the day.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

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.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

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.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

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

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable.

Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.