modesty

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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Jean Rostand

His modesty amounts to deformity.
Margot Asquith

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

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
James Dobson

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
John Milton

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

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

"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

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Robert South

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
Nam June Paik

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz Grillparzer

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Naturists reject contemporary standards of modesty which discourage personal, family and social nudity, and seek to create a social environment where people feel comfortable in the company of nude people, and being seen nude, either just by other nudists, or also by the general public.

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

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm

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

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

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton

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

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