Quotes About Modesty

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

He alone is a man, who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simplicity and modest courage.

The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.

Only man can blush. No other creature knows of shame. Why have we wandered so far away From simple honesty?

So you're reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It's like having feet. It's nothing to brag about.

You write poetry?" Klaus asked. He had read a lot about poets but had never met one. "Just a little bit," Isadora said modestly. "I write poems down in this notebook. It's an interest of mine." "Sappho!" Sunny shrieked, which meant something like, "I'd be very pleased to hear a poem of yours!

The braggadocio aspect is important: a successful but modest man is ordinarily not called a k'nocker. A k'nocker is someone who works crossword puzzles—with a pen (especially if someone is watching).

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

131: My heart is not proud, G. I am never haughty. Except maybe now, when I'm explaining how very humble I am.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.

I'm ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers. Mr. Darcy

There should be moderation in everything.

Tidak ada yang lebih menipu daripada kerendahan hati. Seringkali itu hanya menjadi ungkapan semata, dan terkadang justru disampaikan untuk menyombongkan diri secara diam-diam.

Sus modales eran refinados y su comportamiento ni excesivamente tímido ni afectadamente franco, con lo cual resultaba alegre, bonita y atractiva, sin llamar la atención de cuantos hombres la miraban y (mi parte favorita) sin hacer vehementes demostraciones de contrariedad o de placer cada vez que se presentaba la ocasión de manifestar cualquiera de estos sentimientos. Porque qué lindo es cuando una mujer no es sobreactuada.

Alçakgönüllü görünmek kadar aldat?c? hiçbir ÅŸey olamaz. Asl?nda bu ya dikkatsizlik ve umursamazl?kt?r ya da kimi kez gizli övünmedir.

The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.

I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance. A misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

if you are ever so forward and clever yourselves, you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn.