Modesty Quotes

"Modesty is my best quality."
-Jack Benny

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked."
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings."
-Louis hector Berlioz

"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
-Confucius

"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
-Lord Chesterfield

"Modesty is the citadel of beauty."
-Demades

"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty."
-Jeremy Collier

"It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' -not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope."
-Paul Goodman

"Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth."
-Madam Guizot

"Modesty and chastity are important values for us and we are not giving them up."
-Antonio Sciortino

"It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty."
-J. B. Bossuet

"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable."
-Richard Steele, Sr.

"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."
-Nathaniel Emmons

"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
-Yves Saint Laurent

"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."
-Clarence Day

"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity."
-Max Beerbohm

"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

"Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self- indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts."
-Stephen Vizinczey

"In all modesty, I am a hard man to discredit."
-Stetson Kennedy

"I am impressed with his demeanor, his intelligence, his sense of humor, his modesty, ... Absent some bombshell, which I don't expect, I think he will be confirmed and quite handily."
-Kent Conrad

"[The] Great suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men."
-Bruce Barton

"Modesty is the color of virtue."
-Diogenes Of Sinope

"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."
-Oliver Herford