Quotes About Modesty

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

How easy for those who do not bulge To not overindulge!

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Plain food is quite good enough for me.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.

Those of us who have the nerve to call ourselves Christians," W. H. Auden said in a sermon, "will do well to be extremely reticent on the subject. Indeed it is almost the definition of a Christian that he is somebody who knows he isn't one, either in faith or morals.

?lim ola?anüstüdür ancak pervas?zca davran?p ermi?li?iyle gösteri? yapmak korkakl?kt?r.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

He who lives well, lives hidden.

Stay far hence, far hence, you prudes!

I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty.

Avoid castigating your child in front of others.

Tu vois, Jo, cette petite étoile au bout de la casserole, elle est comme toi, si tu l'enlèves, la casserole perd son équilibre, et toi, si on te retire de la famille, la famille s'écroule parce que tu es la joie incarnée, la bonne humeur, la générosité... et pourtant, avait poursuivi son père, elle a l'air bien modeste, cette étoile en bout de constellation, on la voit à peine...

Modesty was a luxury I learned to do without.

You are a sick, sick man," I told him. "Thank you," Ben replied, looking modest.

You are arrogant and overstep your bounds," I told him, pointing my cleaned fork at him. "I try," he said with false modesty.

What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

I've always prided myself on my lack of panting and sniffing.