Quotations
Quotes:
And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever
View quotes by Walter Landor
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
View quotes by Honore De Balzac
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty
View quotes by Suzanne Curchod Necker
Modesty and chastity are twins
View quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson
She just wore Enough for modesty - no more (White Rose and Red)
View quotes by Robert Buchanan
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
View quotes by Galbraith
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
View quotes by Andre Maurois
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
View quotes by John Milton
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty
View quotes by Herodotus
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
View quotes by Dame Edith Sitwell
Good taste is the modesty of the mind - that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
View quotes by Delphine De Girardin
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
View quotes by Oliver Herford
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat.
View quotes by Michel De Montaigne
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
View quotes by Bruce Barton
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
View quotes by Yves Saint Laurent
In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.
View quotes by Matt Busby
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
View quotes by William Hazlitt
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple. [So where did the modesty come from, Jean Claude?!]
View quotes by Jean Claude Van Damme
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
View quotes by Yves Saint Laurent
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