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“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
Confucius
“Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty”
Herodotus
“Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Modesty died when clothes were born.”
Mark Twain
“Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper -the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by”
Andre Maurois
“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
“The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion”
