Modesty Quotations | Page 3

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

The convention missionaries call "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.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

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.

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

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.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

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

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

To the devil with false modesty.

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.