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.

Be modest humble simple. Control your anger.

Inductive reason which alone makes man master of his environment is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about and were.

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