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I do have a big ego! As I often say, modesty is my only vice. If I weren't so modest, I'd be perfect.
John Horton Conway
Martin, rather than step into the spotlight, would prefer to die in an unarmed attack on the power station supplying its electric current. His genuine modesty is the main reason for the fateful discrepancy between him and the journalistic literary sexton beetles who make copy out of him: they would like to receive the degree of attention that he would like to avoid, and the clearer it becomes that he would like to avoid it, the more they resent him for failing to appreciate their generosity.
Clive James
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
Jean de La Bruyère
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
Jean de La Bruyère
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
William Cowper
The appearance of [Virtue] was far different: her hair, seeking no borrowed charm from ordered locks, grew freely above her forehead; her eyes were steady; in face and gait she was more like a man; she showed a cheerful modesty; and her tall stature was set off by the snow-white robe she wore.
Silius Italicus
Modesty enables physical deformity.
John of St. Samson
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game.
Will Durant
False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
Nicolas Chamfort
Maidenly modesty is like aquavitæ, which keeps in perfect condition as long as it is tightly stoppered, but, if the air gets to it, evaporates at once.
Antonio Simeone Sografi
That's why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct themselves flamboyantly in public. But alone with the work they are chaste and humble. They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve.
Steven Pressfield
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
Bruce Fairchild Barton
Honor modesty more than your life.
Aeschylus
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Delphine de Girardin
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.
Francine Pascal
Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Joseph Joubert
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger
Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
Homer
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
William Shakespeare
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