Top 1200 False Modesty Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Everybody walks around talking about, 'Sam Allardyce's style is not good enough, he doesn't play the right way' and so on and so forth and it is a massive problem for me. People believe it. You believe the false lies, the false implications. Football does that - it believes that lie sometimes.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Modesty should accompany youth.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for a business to survive is to make sure workers have low wages and little or no benefits. There are ample models across this country where we've demonstrated the contrary.

When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.

Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

Everybody knows I got a temper. It's not a temper temper-not an off-the-field temper. It's a competitive temper, wanting to do good. But as far as being a guy who disrupts a lot of things, who doesn't want to listen? Nah, man. That's false. That's false because I'm excelling.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Love knows nothing of modesty.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

I'm anti-verite. I think the verite style is a completely false thing. Most things are false to arrive at a truth; verite is falsity without acknowledging its falsity.

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

Honor modesty more than your life.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.

There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them in concrete situations they may lead to incompatible decisions. As an example, some people think that Christian ideas of sexual modesty suggest that homosexuals should be locked up, some people think that they mean that the churches should recongize gay marriages. But everyone believes in sexual modesty. I think there are universal moral truths, whether or not everyone accepts them. Here's one very low level but important one: it's very bad to torture people.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.

In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

The implication that women are poised to make unfounded accusations in droves is even more alarming when every piece of data on false reporting contradicts that false notion. We need to believe women and believe in women.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.