Quotes on Modesty

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.