We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Jean Rostand
Modesty is the beauty of women.
Gaelic Proverb
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
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
Seneca
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.
Joseph Addison
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father.
Marcus Aurelius
Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by.
Andre Maurois
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.
Joseph Addison
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau
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