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
Gyorgy Legeti 
Jack Benny 
Max Beerbohm 
Jonathan Swift 
Roger Moore All Modesty Quotes
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Bruce Barton 
50% of people like this quote
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois
49% of people like this quote
In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.
Kim Campbell
49% of people like this quote
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
49% of people like this quote
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
48% of people like this quote
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
More »