Modesty is not bashfulness. [ Proverb ]

The scarlet hue of modesty. [ Latena ]

Modesty and chastity are twins. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Modesty is the grace of the soul. [ Delille ]

There is a proud modesty in merit. [ Dryden ]

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty. [ Mme. Necker ]

Ornaments were invented by modesty. [ Joubert ]

Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty. [ Massias ]

Prudery is the caricature of modesty. [ Lingree ]

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. [ Thackeray ]

Modesty is sometimes an exalted pride. [ George Sand ]

Modesty is the conscience of the body. [ Balzac ]

There's a proud modesty in merit!
Averse from asking, and resolved to pay
Ten times the gifts it asks. [ Dryden ]

Modesty sets off one newly come to honor. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When necessity comes in turn modesty out. [ Proverb ]

Modesty ruins all that brings it to court. [ Proverb ]

It is modesty that makes them seem divine. [ William Shakespeare ]

And steal immortal kisses from her lips;
Which even in pure and vestal modesty.
Still blush as thinking their own kisses sin. [ William Shakespeare ]

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty. [ Cervantes ]

He that no modesty has all the town for his own. [ Proverb ]

False modesty is the most decent of all falsehoods. [ Chamfort ]

The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame. [ Mrs. Balfour ]

False modesty is the most reputable of all impostures. [ Chamfort ]

Though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice. [ Proverb ]

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. [ Proverb ]

True modesty protects a woman better than her garments.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness. [ Joubert ]

Pastime passing excellent, if it be husbanded with modesty. [ William Shakespeare ]

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. [ Addison ]

Wine colors the face, to prevent the appearance of modesty. [ A. de Musset ]

Modesty is an ornament, yet people get on better without it. [ German Proverb ]

Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem.

Audacity as against modesty will win the battle over most men. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. [ E. de Girardin ]

One blushes oftener from the wounds of self love than from modesty. [ Mme. Guibert ]

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone. [ Addison ]

She that loses her modesty and honesty, hath nothing else worth losing. [ Proverb ]

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it. [ Lingrie ]

It is modesty that places in the feeble hand of beauty the sceptre that commands power. [ Helvetius ]

There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty. [ Richter ]

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

My modesty does not permit me to essay a thing which my powers are not equal to accomplish. [ Virgil ]

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. [ Mme. Girardin ]

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness. [ Fontanelle ]

Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. [ Steele ]

We wound our modesty, and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. [ William Shakespeare ]

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. [ Tillotson ]

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. [ St. Pierre ]

Modesty secretly awakes desire: it is the most chaste, the most delicate, and the most attractive of all provocations. [ Poincelot ]

By virtue, integrity, perseverance and true modesty it is possible for all men to win the esteem of their fellow beings. [ C. N. Douglas ]

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

It is not easy to be a widow: one must reassume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed to even feign its ignorance. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. [ Barton ]

Confidence, as opposed to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. [ Jeremy Collier ]

One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men. [ Joubert ]

The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty - a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which, one would think, might dispose us to modesty, for the more a man knows, the more he discovers his ignorance. [ Frances Kemble ]

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence: but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride. [ Confucius ]

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men. [ Henry Home ]

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are continguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity. [ Plutarch ]

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has. [ Hannah More ]

Light is, in reality, more awful than darkness; modesty more majestic than strength; and there is truer sublimity in the sweet joy of a child, or the sweet virtue of a maiden, than in the strength of Antaeus or the thunder-clouds of Aetna. [ John Ruskin ]

Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. [ Alcott ]

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. [ Johnson ]

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. [ Addison ]

Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she has five grains of commonsense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value. [ Sydney Smith ]