You have a good many little gifts and virtues but there is no need of parading them for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long and the great charm of all power is modesty.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

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.

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

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry in great plainness of living in exact modesty of dress.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity modesty and humility a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

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

No sex age or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.