[ modest Quotes ]
Showing search results for Modest Quotes - 33 quotes about Modest - Dictionary Quotes
33 quotesModesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Modesty
Joseph Addison
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 995 votes
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
Nationalities and Nationalism
James Agate
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 1080 votes
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Modesty
Honore De Balzac
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 817 votes
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Colleges and Universities
Sir Max Beerbohm
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 882 votes
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Modesty
Jean De La Bruyere
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 879 votes
She just wore enough for modesty; no more!
Modesty
Robert Buchanan
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 800 votes
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Modesty
Lord Chesterfield
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 829 votes
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
Modesty
Winston Churchill
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 726 votes
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sincerity
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 944 votes
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
Action
Confucius
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 763 votes
Modesty is the color of virtue.
Modesty
Diogenes of Sinope
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 1239 votes
Modesty is the beauty of women.
Modesty
Gaelic Proverb
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 813 votes
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
Modesty
Madame de Girardin
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 758 votes
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Fame
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 675 votes
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Dress
Oliver Goldsmith
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 779 votes
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Modesty
Oliver Goldsmith
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 822 votes
Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Modesty
Oliver Herford
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 771 votes
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
Modesty
Horace
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 696 votes
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
Humility
Edgar Watson Howe
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 729 votes
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
Modesty
Edgar Watson Howe
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 615 votes
Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Modesty
Joseph Joubert
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 721 votes
So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
Modesty
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 623 votes
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Modesty
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 631 votes
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Mistakes
Jean Rostand
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 676 votes
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Modesty
Jean Rostand
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 607 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun