Modesty Quotes
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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
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Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.
Zach Hunter
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Women, who on grounds of modesty alone might be expected to prefer being killed or cured by one of their own sex, prove as incalculable in this as in most other things;
Edmund Crispin
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Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
Lactantius
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
Iain Glen
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
Erica Jong
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honore de Balzac
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
William Cowper
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Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
Douglas Jerrold
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Love knows nothing of modesty.
Honore de Balzac
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As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
Clarence Day
