Quotes About Modesty

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

Only a few know, how much one must know, to know how little one knows

There was no mistaking the expression on her face. I inspired her with the strongest emotions of abhorrence and disgust. Let me not be vain enough to say that no woman had ever looked at me in this manner before. I will only venture on the more modest assertion that no woman had ever let me perceive it yet.

I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me—and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it.

Perhaps discipline will be restored in our civilization through the military training required by the challenges of war. The freedom of the part varies with the security of the whole; individualism will diminish in America and England as geographical protection ceases. Sexual license may cure itself through its own excess; our unmoored children may live to see order and modesty become fashionable; clothing will be more stimulating than nudity.

What is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with envy, a man seeks to obtain pardon for excellences and merits from those who have none.

The modest Rose puts forth a Thorn. The humble Sheep a threat'ning Horn. While the Lily white shall in love delight. Nor a Thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Maybe this is the answer - maybe this is how to find true contentment - to live your life within confined horizons. To set modest goals, achievable ambitions. Not all of us can manage it, alas.

In an inescapable way, we sucked, and we knew it, and humility was called for.

I'm not stupid, you know. Quit bragging.

Well, why don't we just begin our letter with 'Divine Westley,' and appeal to his sense of modesty, the Prince suggested.

14. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

Any more décolletage and you'd look rather as if you might; any less and you'd look as if you might rather not." When Hilda was on form she was hard to resist—

Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Not me. I'm happy in the middle. That's where the crowd is. And where there's a crowd, there's usually a party.