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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 revolves.

Charles Williams

Doctrine

Magnificence

Modesty

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Major Taylor

Success

Modesty

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Women

Quality

Modesty

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean Rostand

Modesty

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Roger Moore

Ability

Modesty

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

John Milton

Covetousness

Modesty

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

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 endangered.