modesty Quotes

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.