Best virtue & modesty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith

“Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.”

Kind Mother Born Virtue Humility Humble Obedience Reverence Modesty Meekness

Author:Thomas of Villanova

“Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.”

Humans Virtue Flower Breasts Modesty

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?”

Ifs Thinking Stills Turns Leader Virtue Grace Failing Ideals Surprise Stupidity Compromise Beast Nonsense Fades Modesty Pale Antiquity Calendars Barricades Backsides

Author:Elvis Costello

“The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.”

World Virtue Flower Ordinary Modesty Truck Vases Bouquets

Book:Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.”

Ifs Children Christian Teach Economy Virtue Daughter Our Children Saint Your Children Modesty Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

“False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.”

Men Real Character Light Virtue Opposites Vices Reputation Vanity Vain Deceit Modesty Masterpiece Illusory Real Character False Modesty

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.”

Ifs World Firsts Next Half Virtue Innocence Carrie Modesty

Author:Joseph Addison

“Virtue which shuns, the day.”

Virtue Modesty

Book:Cato: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants

Source: Cato: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants

“Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.”

Virtue Policy Modesty

Author:William Gilmore Simms

“Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.”

Men Believe Heart Matter Women Secret Existence Virtue Essence Welcome Modesty Skepticism Veils Decency Skeptical Old Woman Superficiality Profundity

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.”

Memories Virtue Humility Understood Shining Triumph Modesty Digging

Author:Albert Camus

“Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!”

Lasts Black Virtue Praying Breaths Wings Aging Innocence Modesty Plague Piety Chastity Thighs Pray For Me

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.”

May Beauty Virtue Generosity Innocence Traits Modesty Heroism Candor

Author:Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Virtue Minutes Very Good Modesty Modest

Author:Maya Angelou

“Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.”

Virtue Thrive Modesty

Book:Papers of John Adams

Source: Papers of John Adams

“Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.”

Virtue Pride Careful Modesty Hindrance Building Confidence Personal Pride

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

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