“Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false”
Joseph Addison
“Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
Confucius
“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”
Jonathan Swift
“Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by”
Andre Maurois
“Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
