Quotes About Modesty

Chris snorts. "Never nude. Did you know that's a real thing? Some people call themselves never-nudes and they wear clothes at all times, even in the shower. Like, jean shorts.

People can have nicknames. Body parts should not.

Clothes are the only thing that separates us from animals," my mother said. "Clothes and a sense of shame.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

That is, humility should be as much a part of us as the clothes we wear. We wouldn't think of appearing before other people without our clothes. And we shouldn't think of appearing before other people without deliberately clothing ourselves with an attitude of humility.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.

The agony of having to share this small slice of world with big breakable humans who are really just uncovered beating hearts walking around spilling their viscera and their words everywhere, not bothering to clean up. Animals are a smooth punctuation to human parataxis, resisting our love out of modesty.

Su desnudez le causo vergüenza, se dio media vuelta y se tapó la cara con la oscuridad de la tarde.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

Skromnost i savesnost se nagra?uje samo u romanima. U životu se prvo iskoriste, a onda odgurnu.

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

A valuable thing too is never to let anyone know how fine you thought anyone else ever was because they know better and no one was ever that splendid.

He talked of his work as something altogether apart from himself. There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.

Don't be snotty too soon. And then don't be snotty at all.

To hear him talk of it, you would never know how very good it was, except that he had the shyness about it that all non-conceited writers have when they have done something very fine, and I hoped he would get the book quickly so that I might read it.

El secreto de la sabiduría, del poder y del conocimiento es la humildad

I like people who are not sure of themselves, the perplexed, the modest, those who try to understand.

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Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the right way and we dictate what that means …

On one occasion she agreed to pose for photographs on the condition that she would then be left alone. Unfortunately during the photo session the light was behind her and made her cotton skirt seem see-through, revealing her legs to the world. "I knew your legs were good but I didn't realize they were that spectacular," Prince Charles is reported to have commented. "And did you really have to show them to everybody?

Placing oneself in the limelight while seeming modestly to edge away from it is one of the most skilful of all political moves, and Napoleon had mastered it perfectly.

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