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Sagt av |
| Blygsamhet är inte bara en prydnad utan även en dygdens väktare. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Blygsamhet är min främsta kvalitet. | Jack Benny (1894-1974) |
| Jag är åtminstone blygsam nog för att erkänna att brist på blygsamhet är en av mina brister. | Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) |
| It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it | Jack Benny (1894-1974) |
| Modesty is my best quality | Jack Benny (1894-1974) |
| Modesty is the conscience of the body. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings | Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) |
| Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) |
| Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Master Nansen was washing clothes | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |