Modesty Quotes
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
Charles Williams
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
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
Nam June Paik
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Ninon de Lenclos
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, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel De Cervantes
Good taste is the modesty of the mind - that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Delphine De Girardin
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
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
Mark Twain
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Sir Richard Steele
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
