(97 quotes found)
“Modesty and devotion to God are real jewels for woman kind. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf”
Mark Twain
“The convention miscalled '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”
“It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.”
Ninon de Lenclos
“Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts”
Stephen Vizinczey
“Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks”
John Dryden
“No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.”
Bruce Barton
“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.”
William Shakespeare
