Modesty Quotes - Page 23

• Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.

  Robin Standefer

  Fun, Nice, Sometimes

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• If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

  Will Durant

  Love, Pride, Wish

  Will Durant (1929). "Las mansiones de la filosofía: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny", Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

  J. B. Priestley

  School, Men, Style

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• Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hate, School, Boys

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1970). “Selected prose”

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• Una edad que se funde en la decadencia imperceptible, y se desliza en modesta inocencia.

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Decay, Innocence

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

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• Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Pride, Delay

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.72

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• The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fate, Simple, Men

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• It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

  Henry St John, 1er Vizconde Bolingbroke

  Real, Discovery, Progress

  Henry St John's letter to Alexander Pope, as quoted in "The Work of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Selected from the Best Authorities. In Four Volumes. Volume III", 1841.

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• ¿Puedes nombrar ahora en orden los grados de la mentira? Os nombraré los grados. El primero, la réplica cortés; el segundo, la ocurrencia modesta; el tercero, la réplica grosera; el cuarto, la reprensión valiente; el quinto, el contragolpe pendenciero; el sexto, la mentira circunstancial; el séptimo, la mentira directa. Todas éstas puedes evitarlas, menos la Mentira Directa; y puedes evitarla también, con un Si. . . . Tu Si es el único pacificador; mucha virtud en Si.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Lying, Order

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.

  Thomas of Villanova

  Mother, Humble, Humility

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• The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

  Ambrose

  Honesty, Clothes, Simplicity

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• But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. (...) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.

  John Heilpern

  Life And Love, Character, Intelligent

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• En la paz no hay nada que convenga más al hombre que la modesta quietud y la humildad: Pero cuando el estallido de la guerra sopla en nuestros oídos, entonces imita la acción del tigre; Endurece los tendones, convoca la sangre, Disfraza la hermosa naturaleza con la furia de la dureza; Entonces presta al ojo un aspecto terrible; . . . Ahora aprieta los dientes y abre bien la nariz, aguanta la respiración e inclina cada espíritu a su máxima altura. Vamos, vamos, nobles ingleses.

  William Shakespeare

  Paz, guerra, humildad

  William Shakespeare (1996). "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare", p.496, Ediciones Wordsworth

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• En la modestia del deber temeroso, leo tanto como de la lengua traqueteante de la elocuencia descarada y audaz.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Duty, Fearful

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 100

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• It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Experts, Lessons

  "Director Wim Wenders PINA Interview". Roundtable interview, collider.com. December 21, 2011.

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• These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.

  Harold Nicolson

  Loyalty, Taken, Quality

  "Diplomacy". Book by Harold George Nicolson, chapter 3, p. 126, 1939.

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• Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Humility, Serenity, Veils

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• Adán y Eva entraron en el mundo desnudos y sin vergüenza, desnudos y puros de mente. Y ningún descendiente de ellos ha entrado de otra manera. Todos entraron desnudos, sin vergüenza y con la mente limpia. Entraron con modestia. Tuvieron que adquirir la inmodestia en la mente sucia, no había otra manera de conseguirlo. ... La convención mal llamada "modestia" no tiene norma, y no puede tenerla, porque se opone a la naturaleza y a la razón y, por lo tanto, es una artificialidad y está sujeta al capricho de cualquiera, al capricho enfermo de cualquiera.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Naked, World

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• Si este autor [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, cap. iii.], en lugar de denunciar la culpabilidad y el absurdo del ateísmo, hubiera demostrado su falsedad, su conducta habría sido más adecuada a la modestia del escéptico y a la tolerancia del filósofo.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Guilt, Atheism, Philosopher

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.12, Booklassic

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• La modestia en un actor es tan falsa como la pasión en una prostituta.

  Jackie Gleason

  Girl, Passion, Fake

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• Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless there is a great national need to do everything possible to bring home to the rank and file of the people that all employers and all wealthy men are not grinding, mercenary, selfish skinflints, but that many of them take delight in doing helpful things for others ... Shortcomings of employers are constantly paraded. Why not let the public become acquainted with the better side which most present-day employers possess?

  B. C. Forbes

  Selfish, Mistake, Home

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• Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Two, Special, Veils

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• The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Dirty

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). "Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence", Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Two, Would Be, Different

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.243, Cambridge University Press

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• I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

  Maya Angelou

  Stuck Up, Stuck, Persons

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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