Quotes about modesty
modesty virtue policy
Modesty is policy, no less than virtue. William Gilmore Simms
modesty judgment candor
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. Sarah Fielding
modesty great-person persons
No truly great person ever thought themselves so. William Hazlitt
modesty diffidence false-modesty
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. William Makepeace Thackeray
modesty virtue thrive
Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public. John Adams
modesty reason conventions
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. Mark Twain
modesty obedience worthy
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander. Marcus Tullius Cicero
modesty easy difficult
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. Jules Renard
modesty foul clearness
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. William Shakespeare
modesty false-modesty
False modesty is better than none. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
modesty lost chastity
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. Tacitus
modesty rage ill
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes. Richard Steele
modesty thunder false-modesty
The thunder of false modesty was deafening. Sebastian Faulks
modesty stuck-up stuck
I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person. Maya Angelou
modesty seduction modest
A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction. Mason Cooley
modesty wore
She just wore Enough for modesty - no more
modesty blind outrage
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind. Jean Cocteau
modesty farming farmers
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty. Bharati Mukherjee
modesty notorious superiors
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so. Erik Satie
modesty divine
Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground. Francois Rabelais
modesty fidelity retiring
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
modesty honour
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour. George Herbert