Quotes about Modesty
Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there were bums, which were behind, and out of sight, and thus more lawless. Apart from loosely gathered skirts, nothing much could be done about them.
— Margaret Atwood
Be classy. Anything but trashy.
— Coco Chanel
It's good that somebody has finally cut me down to size, has broken my pride, because I've been far too smug.
— Anne Frank
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
— George Eliot
My dear Watson, said [Sherlock Holmes], I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
— John Milton
Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.
— John Piper
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
— Mark Twain
A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together.
— Mark Twain
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If your abilities are only mediocre, modesty is mere honesty; but if you possess great talents, it is hypocrisy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer