Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.

There is nothing better than an attractive woman who doesn't act attractive.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

A man’s natural manner best becomes him.

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.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

[Humility is:] Greatness in plain clothes

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Work at being a humble person.