| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Modesty |
| | | A modest dog seldom grows fat. | 1 |
| A modest man at court is the silliest wight breathing. | 2 |
| As it is the part of justice never to do violence, so it is the part of modesty never to commit offence. | 3 |
| He that has no modesty has all the town for his own. | 4 |
| Individuals may be modest, but modesty degrades nations. Gioberti. | 5 |
| Loquacity storms the ear but modesty takes the heart. | 6 |
| Modesty becomes a young man. Plautus. | 7 |
| Modesty cannot be taught: it may be born. Publius Syrus. | 8 |
| Modesty has more charms than beauty. | 9 |
| Modesty is the appendage to sobriety and is to chastity, to temperance, to humility as the fingers are to a garment. Bayard Taylor. | 10 |
| Modesty ruins all that bring it to court. | 11 |
| Of their own merits modest men are dumb. Coleman. | 12 |
| She that loseth her modesty and honesty hath nothing else worth losing. | 13 |
| Though modesty be a virtue, bashfulness is a vice. | 14 |
| When modesty has once perished it will never revive. Seneca. | 15 | | |
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