Quotes About Modesty

It's very vain of you to say so then. You'd better let your teacher say it.

I sometimes think the sexual organs were put there to keep the human race humble, she said. They've certainly kept me humble.

Call had never noticed that he had a trick. The man never wasted five minutes appreciating himself; it would have meant losing five minutes off whatever job he had decided he wanted to get done that day.

Offer up your modesty as a sacrifice to service and revel.

As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel combo of anatomical inheritance and sexual inhibition for the gal set; a nature-culture one-two punch, right to the female pleasure principle.

And of course, she wore high-waisted bike shorts, a too-cropped-for-her-age tank

And you know, I really have to say this: If your baby isn't even in the room and you can't bear to come equipped with a blanket, kindly put your boob away in its rightful compartment. Don't leave it hanging out for ten to fifteen minutes at a barbecue like you're waiting for someone to hang a Christmas ornament on it.

There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.

I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.

Desde entonces a Eros y el pudor no se les volvió a ver juntos.

Inconspicuousness begins as self-protection but soon extends to self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of who we are and where we belong in things.

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.

The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment...Held up against certain ideals of success, his life has been a deep disappointment. But he can also see that it is, in the end, no great achievement simply to fixate on the failure. There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.

My mother used to say, Delia if sex ever rears its ugly head, close your eyes before you see the rest of it.

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered; it is accepting them.

The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know;

The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know; how complex and nuanced the subject at hand insists on remaining.