Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance

Robert Buchanan

She just wore Enough for modesty - no more

David Halberstam

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

William Shakespeare

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Bharati Mukherjee

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

William Shakespeare

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

Edward Albee

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

Anna Jameson

Modesty and chastity are twins

Norman Foster

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

Laurie Lee

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

Buddha

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots

Epictetus

I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

English 15th Century Proverbs

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.

Geoff Mulgan

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

Rudyard Kipling

And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!

Kim Campbell

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.