Modesty the gentle art ordtak

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

en Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.
  Konstantin Stanislavsky

en Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
  Harriet Martineau

en Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

en You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

en The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
  John Ruskin

en Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
  Thornton Wilder

en They were all pretending that they were carrying guns. They all were pretending that they had killed in the past. It was a very ugly little situation to be in. If he said he didn't do it, he clearly was in big trouble.

en "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
  Henry Havelock Ellis

en "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
  Henry Havelock Ellis

en "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
  Henry Havelock Ellis

en "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
  Henry Havelock Ellis

en Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
  Mark Twain

en Ergonomics knowledge is available on livet.se. The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
  Mark Twain

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en At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
  Louis-Hector Berlioz


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