Appearance Quote by John Ruskin

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

— John Ruskin

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In…

— Joseph Addison

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“One of the first evidences of a real lady, is that she should be modest. By modesty we mean that she shall not say,…

— Margaret Hale

I often hear women approvingly describe themselves or other women as feisty. Feisty, I feel, has sexist implications, as if standing up for yourself…

— Grayson Perry

The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

— Howard W. Hunter

“Every form of strength is also a weakness. Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions…

— Michael Lewis

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

— Linda Chavez

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

— Samuel Johnson

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest…

— Robert A. Heinlein