Modesty Quotes

It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.

No, by my soul, I never in my lifeDid hear a challenge urged more modestly,Unless a brother should a brother dareTo gentle exercise and proof of arms.

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.[Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Never praise your cider or your horse

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.

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