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Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better. — Ella Fitzgerald

The virtue of modesty leads to eternal happiness. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow — Marcus Aurelius

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

God is the only one who truly gets it because He knows the intimate ways of our minds and hearts. — Beth Moore

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. — Amos Bronson Alcott

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A foolish way to get around." Hal smiled. "If the gods had meant us to ride horses, they never would have given us ships. — John Flanagan

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute. — Aristotle.

The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue. — Dannah Gresh

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. — Anne Lamott

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues. — Frank W. Abagnale

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. — Maya Angelou

Who I ram strangers my skin. — Sean Kilpatrick

Modesty is the color of virtue. — Diogenes

Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. — Roland Barthes

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel De Cervantes

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? — P.G. Wodehouse

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God. — William Faulkner

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope. — Pope Benedict XVI

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball. — Lou Piniella

That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with. — Anne Tyler

But since those days in Vienna I had been aware that Austria was lost, not yet suspecting, to be sure, how much I had lost thereby. — Stefan Zweig

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. — Oliver Goldsmith

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. — Joseph Addison

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. — David Halberstam

Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed. — Jenny Han

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public. — John Adams

Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember: we are only God's echoes and God is Narcissus. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Virtue which shuns, the day. — Joseph Addison

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue. — William Gilmore Simms