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
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
Tom Glazer 
Herodotus 
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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
Wilfred Burchett 
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele
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Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
Linda Chavez
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"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
Herodotus
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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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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