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“- Why you?
- (...) I’m the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.”
― Erik Satie

“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”
― Jules Renard

“We’re not protecting our daughters if we forbid makeup, eschew fashionable hairstyles, or wear dowdy clothes. The feminine form is beautiful. Sure, we don’t want to hide behind makeup or wear immodest clothes to draw attention to ourselves. But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to accent our femininity.”
― Kate Wicker, Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body

“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were cut away in front so that they perfectly framed the groin. It was the first time in history that men's apparel was consciously designed to be more sexy than women's.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.”
― P. Remes

“Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the best of behaviour.”
― T.J. Bowes

“أنت أعرف بنفسك؛ فلا تغتر بمدح الناس لك إذا مدحوك”
― عبد الله بن ضيف الله الرحيلي, الأخلاق الفاضلة قواعد ومنطلقات لاكتسابها

“If there’s one quality I hate in a woman, it’s modesty. Besides making me, with my trombone mouth, feel vaguely uncouth, I think it’s a chickenshit response to the demands of the marketplace, or the universe, not that I can tell them apart.”
― Emily Carter, Glory Goes and Gets Some

“Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?) but its deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such thoughts. So, modesty is always a public concept and not an inner one. For that reason alone 'modesty' can actually be said to be the product of a large ego, for the ego is primarily concerned with survival and society rewards this dishonesty and tends to punish honesty (see Camus)”
― Martinus Hendrikus Benders