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modesty

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  • "Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
    Marquis de Sade
  • A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
    Joseph Addison
  • A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
    Joseph Addison
  • Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
    Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • 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
  • At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
    Hector Berlioz
  • At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
    Hector Berlioz
  • Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
    Bernard de Mandeville
  • Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
    Harriet Martineau
  • Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
    Delphine de Girardin
  • He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
  • His modesty amounts to deformity.
    Margot Asquith
  • His modesty amounts to deformity.
    Margot Asquith
  • 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
  • I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
    Sarah Fielding
  • If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
    Mason Cooley
  • It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
    Ninon de L'Enclos
  • It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
    Gyorgy Legeti
  • Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
    Robert South

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