Great Modesty often hides great Merit..

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

Be merciful, moderate, and modest..

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty..

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is..

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness..

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were….

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise..

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far..

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all f….

A modest man never talks of himself..

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work..

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh..

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty..

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds..

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

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety..

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy..

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is..

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one..

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, a….