Bashfulness Quote by Margaret of Valois Download Open image “Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.” — Margaret of Valois ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bashfulness Becoming Humility Modesty
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage… — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“If we all knew that we were all perverts, we might be a lot happier.” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“ Bashfulnesse Of all our parts, the eyes expresse The sweetest kind of bashfulnesse. ” — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
