Quotes about modesty
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Chinua Achebe What is modesty but inverted pride?
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William Shakespeare In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.
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William Shakespeare Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?
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William Shakespeare Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.
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C. J. Mahaney Modesty is humility expressed in dress.
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Coco Chanel Modesty is the highest elegance
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Clarence Day As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
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Bernard of Clairvaux How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Bill Vaughan It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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Bill Vaughan Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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David Mitchell False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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Alan King Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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Edward Gibbon A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.
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Edith Sitwell I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.
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Edward Heath I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?
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Helen Clark Having reached the top he retained those characteristics of modesty and humility in victory which endeared him to us all and brought him respect from his greatest rivals,
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Arlen Specter Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,
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Bharati Mukherjee A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
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C. S. Lewis Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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Henri Matisse The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.
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Arthur Schopenhauer No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
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Arthur Conan Doyle My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
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Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty
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Marcus Aurelius So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father
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Jack Reynor So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.
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She just wore Enough for modesty - no more
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Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty
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William Hazlitt Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
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Oliver Herford Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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Stephen Vizinczey Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts