#modest

His modesty amounts to deformity. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#his #modesty

I'm a very modest person. ↗

— Drew Brees

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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#overrated #vastly #virtue

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy. ↗

— Al Pacino

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I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal. ↗

— Norah Jones

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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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