Quotes About Modesty

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

I love the half sari. It's very, very feminine and at the same time, has the look of a sari.

I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

Just because I beat David Haye doesn't make me a great fighter. I'm still the same fighter that I was.

I think there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

It's a fine line between self-assuredness and arrogance.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'

I don't want to discuss my breasts with the whole world!

Fame doesn't get to me. I lead quite a quiet life on the whole - I will go to an awards ceremony if the show I'm in, or I, am nominated because I think it's important to say, 'Thank you.'

The wholesome is definitely intentional and drilled into me. I mean, we weren't allowed to pierce our ears growing up. We didn't wear makeup. We couldn't have layers in our hair, perms, or color, or manicures. My dad didn't think it was ladylike. My dad just felt like his daughters should be wholesome.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told me of his terrifying experience on D-Day.

The girls, like, in we'll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

You must never get carried away by your success; many people tend to do so after they achieve success in the initial stages of their life. Your feet must be on the ground all the time.

I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.

I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.