“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. ”
- Delphine de Girardin- Copy
- 394
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 379
“ 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- Copy
- 390
“ Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
- 715
“ He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself. ”
- Dame Edith Sitwell- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ”
- Oliver Herford- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 931
“ Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 998
“ We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
- 764
“ We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 794
“ 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- Copy
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