Quotes About Modesty

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

academics must maintain a delicate balance between necessary humility and the determination

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean

Ich sah verwundert, wie bescheiden, ja wie kümmerlich meine Wißbegier war, verglichen mit der eines solchen Mannes (...)

He was a past master of making himself seem insignificant, of seeming invisible.

A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.

Beside the plain blue homespun and white linen which modestly clothed Aunt Rachel and Judith, Kit's flowered silk gave her the look of some vivid tropical bird lighted by mistake on a strange shore.

Look how little I need, Prudence seemed to be saying. Behold my goodness.

Shyness, as I have told you many times, is simply another species of vanity. Banish it.

Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that his gaze was not where it should be. She stopped dead and slapped her hands over her bosom. Its too low, isn't it? I knew I shouldn't have listened to that maid. She might not mind her boobies hanging out for all to see, but i just can't- Her brain suddenly caught up with her mouth. She removed her hands from her bosom and slapped them over her awful, awful, awful mouth.

Never show how smart you are, dears, or someone will envy you.

I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.

A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.