“Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by”
Andre Maurois
“I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.”
Robert Mueller
“As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”
Jonathan Swift
“It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.”
Ninon de Lenclos
“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
Lord Chesterfield
“When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real”
Jean Paul Richter
“The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.”
Bernard Mandeville
