Modesty Quotes

Modesty Quotes & Sayings

These modesty quotes and modesty sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. - Joseph Addison


Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born. - Mark Twain


We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deserving's, when of ourselves we publish them. - William Shakespeare


With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. - Arthur Schopenhauer


Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. - Thomas Fuller


True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. [La., Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor] - Phaedrus


Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. - William Shakespeare


Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. - Confucius