Top Modesty Quotes
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
James Dobson
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Paul Goodman
Max Beerbohm 
Louisa May Alcott 
Edith Sitwell 
Lord Chesterfield 
John Milton 
Honore De Balzac All Modesty Quotes
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell 
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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier
60% of people like this quote
One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
James Dobson
60% of people like this quote
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger
59% of people like this quote
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Paul Goodman
59% of people like this quote
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Jean Rostand
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No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
Bernard Barton
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Hector Berlioz
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Popular Modesty Authors
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