Modesty Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford (1863-1935) American poet, illustrator
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. .
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters
He is a modest little man with much to be modest about.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman, writer of Clement Attlee
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
James Agate (1877-1947) British critic
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty . . . But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) British poet Ah!
Madam, . . . you know every thing in the world but your perfections, and you only know not those, because ’tis the top of perfection not to know them.
William Congreve (1670-1729) English dramatist
