(97 quotes found)
“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“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.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real”
Jean Paul Richter
“It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty”
J. B. Bossuet
“The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.”
Jane Austen
“We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.”
Jean Rostand
“Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return”
Seneca
“No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.”
Wyndham Lewis
“Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“If thou hast wit & learning, add to it Wisdom and Modesty.”
Benjamin Franklin
