Modesty is a learned adaptation. It’s stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that modesty will fall off faster than a G-string will fall off a stripper.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is an unnatural attitude, and one which is only with difficulty taught to children.

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Fashion made a harsh mistress.

Modesty is oftner mistaken than any other Virtue.

Modesty enables physical deformity.

Modesty is an old-fashioned virtue, which, given your charms, you must certainly do without.

You don’t want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I’m here because I’ve been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I’m paying for someone else who has yet to come.

Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen — to be seen — is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

I’m being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

I'm being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.