Attire Quote by Malcolm X

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Our dress affects not only our thoughts and actions but also the thoughts and actions of others. Accordingly, Paul the Apostle counseled “women [to]…

— Tad R. Callister

Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men. In the…

— Tad R. Callister

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary…

— William Shakespeare

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

— Ezra Taft Benson

On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to…

— Ellen Key

Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing…

— Joseph Addison

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either…

— William Hazlitt

A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows…

— Ellen G. White

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

— Linda Chavez

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

— Anonymous

“What has been valued in the West in women has too often been defined only in relation to the masculine: the good, nurturant mother…

— Sylvia Perera