Richard Steele Quotes About Modesty

Quotes about: Modesty

• Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

  Richard Steele

  Beauty, Modesty, Wit

• A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Envy, Doe

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Guardian: With a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Preface by the Rev. Rob. Lynam”, p.94

• Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

  Richard Steele

  Modesty, Rage, Ill

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1774). “The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.106

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