| Author |
Quotes |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. |
| Delphine de Girardin | Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. |
| Henry Fielding | The modesty's a candle to thy merit. |
| Honore de Balzac | Modesty is the conscience of the body. |
| James Thomson | He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. |
| Jean Paul Richter | When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. |
| Jonathan Swift | Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. |
| Jules Renard | It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. |
| Lord Chesterfield | Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. |
| Mary Wortley Montagu | No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. |
| Maurice Switzer | There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself. |
| Miss Manners | It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help |
| Oliver Herford | Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. |
| Paul Goodman | It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. |
| Sir Richard Steele | Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. |
| Terence Afer | Give place to your betters. |
| Wentworth Dillon | Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. |
| William Habington | Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade, My Castara lives unknown To no looser eye betrayed. |
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