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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.
Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable.
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.
I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.