Terry Wogan Quotes

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

I am not bold, lewd, or crude.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.

I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of.

It's easy to be loud, outspoken, and play to the gallery. It's difficult to underplay one's self.

Listen, even if you go wild, I like class. Everybody in show business never should forget that there is a line, and that you should have class.

I'm a very well-behaved guy!

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

I'm a humble kid. I grew up with Filathlitikos. There were some people in Filathlitikos that taught to me how to stay humble. It was coach Tzivas that never allowed me to get carried away. That's who I am.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.