Quotes about modest
modesty honour
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour. George Herbert
modesty virtue betray
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. Joseph Addison
modesty virtue
Virtue which shuns, the day.
modesty seduction modest
A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction. Mason Cooley
modest persons
I'm much too modest a person. Malcolm Muggeridge
modesty virtue thrive
Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public. John Adams
modesty virtue economy
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. John Kenneth Galbraith
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 deformity amount
His modesty amounts to deformity. Margot Asquith
modesty virtue breasts
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Oliver Goldsmith
modesty obedience worthy
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 divine
Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground. Francois Rabelais
modesty rich covetousness
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. John Milton
modesty
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. Edward Albee
modesty virtue policy
Modesty is policy, no less than virtue. William Gilmore Simms
modesty speak intimate
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject. William Hazlitt
modesty great-person persons
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
modesty diffidence false-modesty
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. William Makepeace Thackeray