(90 quotes found)
“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
“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
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
Confucius
“Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,No touch of bashfulness?”
William Shakespeare
“Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by”
Andre Maurois
“Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty”
Herodotus
“I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.”
Belva Lockwood
“Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.”
Richard Steele Sr.
“Modesty died when clothes were born.”
Mark Twain
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