Quotes about modesty
modesty wore
She just wore Enough for modesty - no more
modesty virtue
Modesty is not one of my virtues. Alan King
modesty elegance highest
Modesty is the highest elegance Coco Chanel
modesty time-passing excellent
Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty. William Shakespeare
modesty foul clearness
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
modesty twins chastity
Modesty and chastity are twins Anna Jameson
modesty thunder false-modesty
The thunder of false modesty was deafening. Sebastian Faulks
modesty notorious superiors
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so. Erik Satie
modesty stuck-up stuck
I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person. Maya Angelou
modesty rich covetousness
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. John Milton
modesty deformity amount
His modesty amounts to deformity. Margot Asquith
modesty reason conventions
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice. Mark Twain
modesty virtue breasts
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Oliver Goldsmith
modesty obedience worthy
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander. Marcus Tullius Cicero
modesty seduction modest
A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction. Mason Cooley
modesty virtue betray
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. Joseph Addison
modesty virtue
Virtue which shuns, the day.
modesty virtue thrive
Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public. John Adams
modesty honour
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour. George Herbert
modesty divine
Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground. Francois Rabelais
modesty blind outrage
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind. Jean Cocteau
modesty fidelity retiring
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
modesty false-modesty
False modesty is better than none. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
modesty rage ill
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes. Richard Steele
modesty lost chastity
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. Tacitus
modesty sometimes virtue
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. David Halberstam
modesty farming farmers
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty. Bharati Mukherjee
modesty virtue economy
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. John Kenneth Galbraith
modesty easy difficult
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. Jules Renard
modesty
Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer. Edward Albee
modesty judgment candor
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. Sarah Fielding
modesty virtue policy
Modesty is policy, no less than virtue. William Gilmore Simms
modesty speak intimate
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject. William Hazlitt