Quotes by Modesty To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. Eliezer Yudkowsky rationality modesty humble Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness. Elisabeth Elliot modesty opposites mean Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested. Emmanuel Macron modesty ambition mean Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. Erich Maria Remarque modesty rewards novel I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so. Erik Satie modesty notorious superiors Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty. Fanny Kemble modesty female diamond I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. Ernest Hemingway modesty writing thinking Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. Ezra Taft Benson modesty saint dresses Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground. Francois Rabelais modesty divine I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty. Frank Lloyd Wright modesty honest arrogance Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. Francis Bacon modesty wells art The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men. Friedrich Nietzsche modesty self men This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Friedrich Nietzsche modesty love hands Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty. Friedrich Nietzsche increase modesty beauty Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise. George Farquhar modesty hearing men We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible. Georges Bataille contrary modesty together Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. George Washington argument modesty humble Modesty sets off one newly come to honour. George Herbert honour modesty A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics. Gilbert K. Chesterton being-a-woman modesty feminist It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. Gyorgy Ligeti modesty home mean «1234567891011»
