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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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Amicitia (XX)
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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a
valuable and lasting authority.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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.
Author: Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon
Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 113)
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The modesty's a candle to thy merit.
Author: Henry Fielding
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.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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.
Author: William Habington
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.
Author: Marietta Holley
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?]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
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.]
Author: Jean Paul Richter
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?
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at IV, ii)
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Give place to your betters.
[Lat., De locum melioribus.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Phormio (III, 2, 37)
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He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Autumn (l. 229)
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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.
Author: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Source: Memoranda (vol. III, p. 1513), in Paine's "Biography of Mark Twain"
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Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Author: Oliver Herford
Source: None
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
Author: William Hazlitt
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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help
Author: Miss Manners
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It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Author: Paul Goodman
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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Author: Delphine de Girardin
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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: None
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Author: Sir Richard Steele
Source: None
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There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
Author: Maurice Switzer
Source: None
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It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
Author: Jules Renard
Source: None
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: None
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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Source: None
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Author: Honore De Balzac
Source: None
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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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.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Source: None
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