Top Modesty Quotes
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
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
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
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger
Jack Benny 
John Milton 
Lord Chesterfield 
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent 
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm
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It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
Gyorgy Legeti
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau
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It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Ninon de Lenclos
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I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
Alexander Alekhine
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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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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
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Popular Modesty Authors
Mason CooleyLucius Annaeus SenecaHonore De BalzacArthur SchopenhauerJoseph Addison ConfuciusLord ChesterfieldMiguel De CervantesJonathan SwiftArnold SchwarzeneggerJohn Kenneth GalbraithJean RostandJean Jacques Rousseau HerodotusMarquis de Sade
Oliver GoldsmithSidonie Gabrielle ColetteMax BeerbohmRoger MooreAndre MauroisRichard Brinsley SheridanLouisa May AlcottJohn MiltonFranz GrillparzerTom GlazerKim CampbellBruce BartonLinda ChavezWilliam LawArthur Helps
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