Quotes About Modesty

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

As for... Monseigneur's feelings toward you, I think you are misinformed. You are too modest, Dame Catherine, far too modest, and I believe you know that the Duke has not forgotten you. Everyone here knows the truth about the Golden Fleece...

Las mujeres son la muerte —dijo Oliveira—. Ahí donde la ves, lo más modosita al lado de la rayuela... Mejor no les abrás, Manú, estamos tan bien así.

y, como a menudo pensaba, su verdadera sabiduría había consistido en haber conducido su existencia por los senderos de la modestia, la moderación y la mediocridad.

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I have come to believe that we steer our individual spheres of being through the spectra of possible worlds via the choices we make, the acts we perform. Most people stick to known routes, and therefore cannot travel far. They live too modestly, and perhaps too privately. Only by being strange can we move, for strange acts cause us to be rejected by whatever normality we have offended, and to be propelled towards a normality that can better accommodate us.

The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

He is doubtless very gifted but completely without mental discipline. He's outwardly very modest, but inwardly very arrogant." Ehrenfest's reply is lost, but Born's next letter is indicative: "Your information about Oppenheimer was very valuable to me. I know that he is a very fine and decent man, but you can't help it if someone gets on your nerves.

Be classy, not flashy. - Kailin Gow

Could you maybe not stare at my brothers in open mouthed admiration?" Rachel whispers. "It will only make their egos bigger.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Humble is such a lonely word.

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

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I like to just be humble. The more interviews, the more embarrassed I kind of get.

I keep to myself a little bit more, I have that more quiet sexiness, quiet confidence going and I think that does intrigue people.

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

I'm Irish. I don't know how to take a compliment.

I will never do something like an item number.

I never wish to have an image of a sexy girl or an item girl.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

My ambition is to stop showing off. I'd love to be a tweedy academic. I'd be happy living in a croft. I like making jam. So why am I a semi-public figure?

Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.