219 Quotes About Modesty

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Modesty and chastity are twins

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.