Modesty Quotes

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Be smart, but never show it.

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Modesty is the key to success

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

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

His modesty amounts to deformity.

In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.

Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

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

Modesty is the highest elegance

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

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

There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

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

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

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 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.

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

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach,
which Christians and Mohammedans,
in their modesty,
agree to apply to those who differ from them.

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.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

Modesty was made for the ugly.

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.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

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

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

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

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.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.