Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“Modesty is invisibility, said Aunt Lydia. Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be—her voice trembled—penetrated. What you must be,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Dressing appropriately in one venue may be highly inappropriate in another. Yet every day we see a lack of modesty and taste,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Put your heart in He then put your heart in me. Together, forever, we shall believe. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“In fact, it seems that most of the Bible's instructions regarding modesty find their context in warnings about materialism, not sexuality . . .” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss 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 woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och,… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the… — U Thant Copy Share Image
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work… How unworthy of the Christian… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
![“Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.” quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_absurdity_had-this-author-sir-w-drummond-academica_2448856.jpg)
