Modesty - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66867<![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63623<![CDATA[Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62778<![CDATA[Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42929<![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930<![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42931<![CDATA[Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42918<![CDATA[It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42919<![CDATA[It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42920<![CDATA[Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42921<![CDATA[With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42922<![CDATA[No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42923<![CDATA[Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42924<![CDATA[There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42925<![CDATA[It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42926<![CDATA[Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42927<![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42915<![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42916<![CDATA[Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42917<![CDATA[What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? [Lat., Cui pudor et ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42909<![CDATA[Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42910<![CDATA[Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42911<![CDATA[When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42912<![CDATA[Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42913<![CDATA[I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might, Not stepping o'er ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42914<![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42902<![CDATA[Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42903<![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42904<![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905<![CDATA[Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42906<![CDATA[Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade, My Castara lives unknown To no looser ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42907<![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42908<![CDATA[Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42893<![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42894<![CDATA[So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42895<![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42896<![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42897<![CDATA[Modesty is the conscience of the body. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42898<![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42899<![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42900<![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42901<![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037<![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104