Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus... →
Harriet Martineau
Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
Rain
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
Major Taylor
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse... →
Charles Williams
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
Wilfred Burchett
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
John Milton