219 Quotes About Modesty

Modesty is a learned adaptation. It’s stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that modesty will fall off faster than a G-string will fall off a stripper.

This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.

Is your modesty worth death?

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the best of behaviour.

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If there’s one quality I hate in a woman, it’s modesty. Besides making me, with my trombone mouth, feel vaguely uncouth, I think it’s a chickenshit response to the demands of the marketplace, or the universe, not that I can tell them apart.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.