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“Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it”
Joseph Addison Quotes |
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“Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by”
Andre Maurois Quotes |
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“So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father”
Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
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“Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes |
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“Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false”
Joseph Addison Quotes |
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“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”
Honore de Balzac Quotes |
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“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”
John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
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“Modesty is my best quality”
Jack Benny Quotes |
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“At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings”
Louis-Hector Berlioz Quotes |
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“Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.”
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“Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.”
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“He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty
from it.
[Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit
verecudiam.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Amicitia (XX)
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“Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a
valuable and lasting authority.”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Rhetorical Invention (bk. II, sec. LVI)
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“Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.”
Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon Quotes Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 113)
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“The modesty's a candle to thy merit.”
Henry Fielding Quotes Source: Tom Thumb the Great (act I, sc. 3, l. 8)
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“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 329)
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“Like the violet, which alone
Prospers in some happy shade,
My Castara lives unknown
To no looser eye betrayed.”
William Habington Quotes Source: Castara, (in Elton's edition, p. 166)
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“Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their
modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political
pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw
'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their
lives.”
Marietta Holley Quotes Source: My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's
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“What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister
of justice, and undisguised truth?
[Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque
veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (I, 24, 6)
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“Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it
gives it strength and makes it stand out.”
Jean de la Bruyere Quotes Source: The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (ch. II, sec. 17)
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“Modesty becomes a young man.
[Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Asinaria (V, 1, 8)
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“When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then
is he really so.
[Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim Lobe, sondern
beim Tadel, dann ist er's.]”
Jean Paul Richter Quotes Source: Hesperus (12)
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“Can it be
That modesty may more betray our sense
Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,
Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
And pitch our evils there?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
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“I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell
And gave him what becomed love I might,
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at IV, ii)
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“Give place to your betters.
[Lat., De locum melioribus.]”
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Quotes Source: Phormio (III, 2, 37)
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