Modesty quotes

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◆ The best makeup is Smile. The best jewelry is Modesty. The best clothing is Confidence.

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◆ Modesty is my best quality

- Jack Benny99

◆ At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings

- Louis-Hector Berlioz99

◆ Modesty is the conscience of the body.

- Honore De Balzac99

◆ A great man is always willing to be little.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

- Harry S Truman99

◆ Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

- Major Taylor99

◆ True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

- John Milton99

◆ Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

- Oliver Herford99

◆ To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

- Franz Grillparzer99

◆ If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

- Mason Cooley99

◆ Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

- Miguel De Cervantes99

◆ As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

- Jonathan Swift99

◆ Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

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◆ Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99