219 Quotes About Modesty

Our arrogance as a species is only a few degrees away from us claiming that we invented, not discovered, fire.

Mr. Attlee is a modest man with much to be modest about.

You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.

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

Small-mindedness is intensified by things such as big-headedness.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee

The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical and moral evils that torment mankind, as well as of the vices and follies that degrade and destroy women; yet, at school, boys infallibly lose that decent bashfulness, which might have ripened into modesty at home.

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.