#modest

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. ↗

— Iain Glen

#class #even #face #her #i

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#modest #outgoing #shy #very

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#being #gain #modest #never #reputation

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#men #modesty #most #rule #strange

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#believe #distinction #everywhere #had #i

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#art

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why. ↗

— Wendy Shalit

#femininity #modesty #women #beauty

Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty. ↗

— Toba Beta

#briliant #intelligence #modesty #intelligence

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

#modesty #writers-on-writing #life

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ↗

— Richard Steele

#beauty #detestable #lack #modesty #nothing