Top 516 Modesty Quotes & Sayings

Me and modesty don't mix.

'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

Modesty is my best quality.

Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

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

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

I don't like false modesty.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.

Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty.

Modesty is the key to success

Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Modesty is the highest elegance

Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty and chastity are twins

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

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

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

Modesty needs to come from the heart.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

Modesty was made for the ugly.

There is a proud modesty in merit.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I have no concept of modesty anymore.

To the devil with false modesty.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

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.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.

Modesty should accompany youth.