Modesty Quotes

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

Good, Words, Find

Modesty Quote

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield

Sure, Praise, Angle

Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Good, Great, Power

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Great, Hope, Thinking

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade

Sex, Important, Satisfied

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps

Beauty, True, Humility

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

Great, Honesty, Talent

Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honore de Balzac

Conscience, Body

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Hope, Sex, Wish

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge, Children, Evil

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

Great, Off, Talent

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois

Men, Pass, Praise

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Great, Power, Long

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison

Virtue, Guard, Ornament

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Virtue, Overrated, Vastly

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

Power, Beautiful, Woman

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
Mason Cooley

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

Call, Red, Carpet

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Flower, Either, Sincerity

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

Art, Pretending, Gentle

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Women, Men, Strange

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm

Between, Balance, Popularity

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes

Greatest, Often, Himself

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell

Time, Busy, Thinking

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
David Mitchell

Arrogance, Worse, False

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

Woman, Remember, Her

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

Age, Sex, Above

Modesty is my best quality.
Jack Benny

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

Good, Blessed, Others

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