Top Modesty Quotes
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
James Dobson
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Paul Goodman
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No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
Bernard Barton 
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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Delphine de Girardin
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.
Roger Moore
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