Modesty Quotes - Page 8

And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

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

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

Modesty should accompany youth.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

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.

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.