modesty Quotes

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.'