61 Quotations with Modesty.
- 1. John Kenneth Galbraith: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
- 2. Lord Chesterfield: Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 5. Confucius: He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
- 6. Jonathan Swift: As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty ma ...
- 7. Madam Guizot: Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the h ...
- 8. Demades: Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
- 9. Thomas Huxley: Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualiti ...
- 10. Edith Sitwell: I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinkin ...
- 11. W.S. Gilbert: Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound
- 12. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne: After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and imm ...
- 13. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only ...
- 14. Bernard Mandeville: Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue. It is ...
- 15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind ...
- 16. John Christian Bovee: Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, g ...
- 17. Harriet Martineau: Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let t ...
- 18. Yves Saint-Laurent: I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, t ...
- 19. Dame Edith Sitwell: I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking ...
- 20. Paul Goodman: It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" --not even modesty. Naturally a ...
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