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“Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Joe

“Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.”
― Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

“Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”
― Oliver Herford

“...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.”
― Tyler Perry, Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

“Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.”
― Noah Webster

“Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.”
― Robert Schumann

“If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

“One of the first evidences of a real lady, is that she should be modest. By modesty we mean that she shall not say, do, nor wear anything that would cause her to appear gaudy, ill-bred, or unchaste. There should be nothing about her to attract unfavorable attention, nothing in her dress or manner that would give a man an excuse for vulgar comment. When we dress contrary to the rule of modesty we give excuse for unwholesome thoughts in the mind of those who look upon us, and every girl who oversteps these bounds makes herself liable to misunderstanding and insult, though she may be innocent of any such intention.”
― Margaret Hale

“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.”
― Akhenaton

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.”
― Louis de Broglie, Nouvelles perspectives en microphysique

“You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.”
― Jason Evert

“You don¡¯t want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I¡¯m here because I¡¯ve been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I¡¯m paying for someone else who has yet to come.”
― Maya Angelou

“To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't”
― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories

“Saatnya angin berbau asin datang dari laut.
Hari ini, aku akan bermain gekkin untukmu.
Suara denting senar melebur bersama udara, meresap dalam panca indera.
Terlihat seperti wewangian apakah nada-nada ini...
Dengan terlahirnya lagu ini, keberadaanmu mendapatkan makna baru.
Kalau bersedia, bernyanyilah bersamaku. Masih ada waktu sebelum gelap.
Waktu yang paling indah.”
― Hitoshi Ashinano, ¥è¥³¥Ï¥ÞÙI¤¤³ö¤·¼oÐÐ 4 [Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou 4]

“Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself.”
― Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You

“Modesty is a reflex, arising naturally to help a woman protect her hopes and guide their fulfillment -specifically, this hope for one man. (...) Along with this hope comes a certain vulnerability, because every time a man fails to stick by us, our hopes are, in a sense, dashed. This is where modesty fits in. For modesty armed this special vulnerability -not to oppress women, but with the aim of putting them on an equal footing with men. The delay modesty created not only made it more likely that women could select men who would stick by them, but in turning lust into love, it changed men from uncivilized males who ran after as many sexual partners as they can get to men who really wanted to stick by one woman.”
― Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

“I'm not going to be wearing a single piece of jewelry tonight. I was born a Tung, and I have nothing to prove to anyone.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

“Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of others by what we wear. With usch power it's vital to question ourselves: 'Am I an example of Christ-centeredness? Or have I just gotten comfortable in the "Christian routine" and forgotten why I've chosen to live this way?”
― Hannah Farver, Uncompromising: A Heart Claimed By a Radical Love

“Our arrogance as a species is only a few degrees away from us claiming that we invented, not discovered, fire.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none?

For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

“I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna was pretty risqu¨¦ too, but she was pretty much always known as a "bad girl." Mariah was a good girl, supposedly Christian, turning very bad, in the late 90's. So then, all the other little girls and teens and women across America thought it would be ok for them to "come out" too essentially, or flaunt whatever they had. Modesty went completely out the window for many women, starting in the late 90's.”
― Lisa Bedrick, On Christian Hot Topics

“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth: this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert ¡ª himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt ¡ª the Divine Reason”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“A truly big man is always try to be a small man.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.”
― Remy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris

“My mother used to tell me that a woman's beauty lied not in the size of her dowry, but in the modest depths of her maiden heart.”
― Jade Laredo, Angel of Darkness: A Romantic Regency Novella

“A boss who isn't humble lose his people ultimately, a stranger who isn't humble lose the people instantly.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words