Modesty Quotes - Page 6

• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Virtue, Economy, Overrated

  John Kenneth Galbraith, J. Ron Stanfield, Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield (2004). “Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith”, p.197, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Modest

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• Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

  Noah Webster

  Honor, Excellence, Female

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.140

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• No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Roots, America, Salt

  "The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work".

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• Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Simple, Faces

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• Modesty and dew love the shade.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Retirement, Dew, Shade

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• Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Beautiful, Skins, Enough

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.125, Library of America

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• Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Exquisite

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• Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Fashion, Should Have, Needs

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• There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Nature, Retirement, Kindness

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Virtue, Breasts, Stoops

  Oliver Goldsmith (1801). “The Beauties of Goldsmith”, p.121

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• Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

  Roger Moore

  Blessed, Musical Ability, Looks

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• Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

  William Hazlitt

  Real, Humility, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.108

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• Parents and leaders should give early help to the blase girl who is often overpainted and underdressed. She is the picture of an unhappy girl whose physical adornments, to her thinking, don't invite adequate attention. Heaven help the girl who gets the kind of attention she is seeking by being overpainted and underdressed! She will rue the day, of course, when she gets the kind of attention her flagrant invitation is giving.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

  Teresa of Avila

  Running, Believe, Humility

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• You wonderful girls, dress modestly and keep yourselves physically clean. Be cheerful and happy. Be positive about life. Then the Holy Spirit will cause you to be more beautiful and attractive. And when a faithful priesthood bearer comes to carry you away on his white horse-which might be an '84 Ford-to the temple, you will be prepared in every way.'

  F. Melvin Hammond

  Beautiful, Girl, Horse

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• Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Sex, Children

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• That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beautiful, Law, Needs

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

  Georges Bataille

  Together, Contrary

  Georges Bataille (1977). “Story of the eye”

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• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.

  Thomas Adams

  Children, Wife, Sorrow

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• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

  Andre Gide

  Effort, Mind, Genius

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

  Jackie Gleason

  Girl, Sarcastic, Passion

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• I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

  Heinrich Heine

  Peace, Crazy, Flower

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• In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Success, Brother, Believe

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• Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
  First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
  Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
  Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
  Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
  Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Learning, Pride

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.202

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