modesty Quotes

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.