Quotes of: Modesty Keyword

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

Karl Lagerfeld

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Robert South

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

Saint Bernard

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Roger Moore

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Confucius

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.

P. Remes

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Bruce Barton

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

She Stoops to Conquer

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Max Beerbohm

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Joseph Addison

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Herodotus

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Jean Rostand

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

Bernard Barton

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

Oliver Herford

Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be —is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

The Handmaid's Tale

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Akhenaton

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Delphine de Girardin

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.

Andy Paula