Quotes About Modesty

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

Am I impressed by myself? Nah, not really.

I'm never impressed with myself!

I think I do a lot of things averagely. So I have to combine them. It looks impressive but actually I don't think I excel at any of them.

I don't feel like congratulating myself, because I know there's still a lot of room for improvement.

I have no inclination to seek attention.

I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence.

Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

a modest and abstemious diet which favored pineapples, Brazil nuts, and Saturday dinners of salt cod.

Small is good. For one thing, small projects can be simple.

It's relatively easy to build something small and simple.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.... The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

Weinig mensen kunnen het nalaten zichzelf hoog te achten met betrekking tot de kennis die zij zich eens hebben verworven, zelfs als zijn deze zijn kwijtgeraakt. En als zij niet erg bescheiden en discreet zijn, zullen de onverteerde flarden die zulke mensen zich gewoonlijk van het Latijn herinneren, hen bijna altijd op een of ander moment belachelijk maken voor degenen die er wel goed van op de hoogte zijn.

I hate that word boobs. I wish people wouldn't say it, especially girls. It's like calling your own body stupid.

Trees are bowed down with weight of fruit, Clouds big with rain hang low, So good men humbly bear success, Nor overweening grow.

Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

It's obviously flattering when somebody likes something one is doing. But at the same time, I get embarrassed about it. It's the 'I'm not worthy syndrome.'

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.