He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

It's always well to be the smartest thinker, but is won't get you very far unless you're the plainest talker.

Act as though you cannot fail but keep a humble spirit.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.