Quotes 21 till 40 of 45.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
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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.
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Thy modesty's candle to thy merit.
The Tragedy of Tragedies 1, 3 -
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
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