Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. – Harriet Martineau
I don’t think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive. – Julian Baggini
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. – Jean Rostand
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays… need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. – Alexander Alekhine
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. – Charles Williams
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. – Paulo Coelho
And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do. – The Bible Saint Paul, 1 Timothy 2:9-10
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. – Louis Kronenberger
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. – Maya Angelou
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‘the new modesty.’ – Karl Lagerfeld
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. – Saint Bernard