Modesty Quotes
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
Louis-Hector Berlioz
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
Louis-Hector Berlioz
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Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false
Joseph Addison
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue
Joseph Addison
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honore de Balzac
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Bernie Hubley
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I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Belva Lockwood
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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps
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Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
Andre Maurois
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So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father
Marcus Aurelius
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
Will Durant
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Modesty is my best quality
Jack Benny
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton
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To test a modest man`s modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Alex Cunningham
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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
Charles Williams
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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Al Eckert
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The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she`s spoke to every da...
Anne Hedges
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Andrea Ruedi
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Out of disbelief [in God] we have impudently assumed that all of life is now subject to our own will. And the disasters that have come from willing what cannot be willed have not at all brought us to some modesty about our presumptions.
Ashley Dukes
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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Alsou Safin
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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
Andrew Popper
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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Amit Yoran
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Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
Almeda Jacks
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Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Amit Yoran
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
Alan Vituli
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Alton Greene
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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Andre Bakhos
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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Ali Partovi
