We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving… — Max Shulman Copy Share Image
Men are not inspired to protect women who are naked, but instead to conquer and violate them; they want to protect those… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Parents and leaders should give early help to the blase girl who is often overpainted and underdressed. She is the picture of… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty. — Robert Clive Copy Share Image
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
