Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
VirtueModestyOverratedVastly
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
WorldVirtueModestyGreatestAlmost
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Delphine de Girardin
GoodMindWhyModestyTasteCannot
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
Rem Koolhaas
ArchitectureModestyAlwaysRare
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz Grillparzer
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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
Wilfred Burchett
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No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
Bernard Barton
AgeManSexModestyWithoutAbove
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
Karl Lagerfeld
RedNewModestyOverRed CarpetOut
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Robert South
HeartModestyStormsEarTakes
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
LawModestyDoes
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Bruce Barton
'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade
EatingSexImportantModestyLittle
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
Ezra Taft Benson
WomanDressLanguageTrueModesty
Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation.
Vladimir Horowitz
BossKingFeelSituationModesty
I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.
Tan France
ImportantModestyDressingMiddle
Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
Kangana Ranaut
GoodHonestyModestyCost
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm
BalanceModestyPopularityDelicate
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger
VanityNothingOthersModestyUs
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
HonestyGreatTalentPeopleModesty
Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
Linda Chavez
MoreModestyNaturalUsedFemale
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
David Mitchell
ArroganceModestyFalseWorseThan
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Sarah Fielding
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau
ModestyConscienceFalseFidelity
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