Quotes of Modesty - somelinesforyou

“ It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" — not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. ”

- Paul Goodman

“ She just wore enough for modesty; no more! ”

- Robert Williams Buchanan

“ As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. ”

- Delphine de Girardin

“ Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ So rare is the union of beauty with modesty. ”

- Juvenal

“ Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. ”

- Harriet Martineau

“ Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ”

- Confucius

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

- Dame Edith Sitwell

“ Modesty forbids what the law does not. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

- Joseph Addison

“ Modesty is the color of virtue. ”

- Diogenes of Sinope

“ Modesty is the conscience of the body. ”

- Honore de Balzac

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Oliver Herford

“ No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. ”

- Wyndham Lewis

“ No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ”

- Bruce Barton

“ Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

“ Ornaments were invented by modesty. ”

- Joseph Joubert

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

- Mark Twain

“ We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ His modesty amounts to deformity. ”

- Margot Asquith

“ Shyness is just egoism out of its depth. ”

- Penelope Keith

“ Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere
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