Modesty Quotes - Page 10

• Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Want, Defence, Decency

  'Essay on Translated Verse' (1684) l. 113

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  Iain Glen

  Class, Tongue, Faces

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Modesty is the highest elegance

  Coco Chanel

  Elegance, Highest

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• I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.

  Alber Elbaz

  Beautiful, Attitude, Thinking

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• There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them in concrete situations they may lead to incompatible decisions. As an example, some people think that Christian ideas of sexual modesty suggest that homosexuals should be locked up, some people think that they mean that the churches should recongize gay marriages. But everyone believes in sexual modesty. I think there are universal moral truths, whether or not everyone accepts them. Here's one very low level but important one: it's very bad to torture people.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Christian, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

  Heinrich Heine

  Dream, Flower, Heart

  "Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos".

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• Modesty needs to come from the heart.

  David K. Bernard

  Heart, Needs

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• A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Beauty, Generosity, Appreciate

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• In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened to be the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century. I would like to think that I could emulate at least his modesty - his refusal to exaggerate his perception of himself and his place in the larger scheme of things - even if my work never compares with his in its importance.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

  Paul McCartney

  Writing, Thinking, Pieces

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

  Clarence Day

  Angel, Done, Evolution

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.56, 1st World Publishing

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• Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Affair, Brothels

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.81

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• Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Feelings, Arrogance, Democracy

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• Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Alcohol, Cooking, Style

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 29, 2014

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• Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

  Margaret Cho

  Law, Taste, Rebellious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

  William Hazlitt

  Honesty, People, Office

  "Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims". Book by William Hazlitt. No. 43, 1823.

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• I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Legs, Shows, Huge

  Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.

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• After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sex, Queens, Numbers

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• I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Responsibility, Stuck

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a very modest attempt to build a space where people could live together without slaughtering one another.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Kings, Men, Space

  Source: www.electronicbookreview.com

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• False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Decent

  "Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc".

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• Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Ambition, Mean, Not Interested

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• Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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• When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Encouragement, Thinking, People

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.80, Modern Library

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• The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, "Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here." I find it vaguely sinister, even.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Hate, Believe, Artist

  "Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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