Modesty Quotes

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her ...

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

A great man is always willing to be little.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential...

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor...

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the in...

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such auth...

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference betwe...

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a real...

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to unders...

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious ...

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed compan...

Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as ...

I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newsp...

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea ...

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulga...

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

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very ...

Modesty, not temper.

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

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies ha...

A modest man never talks of himself.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many o...

You don’t want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here ...