Bashfulness Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Download Open image “Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.” — Mary Wollstonecraft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bashfulness Calm Character Charm Humility Maturity Modesty Peace Virtue Vivacious Youth
Modesty is virtue which enhances charm of ones personality & get up. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. — Oliver Herford 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
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts. — Stephen Vizinczey 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 gifts that… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude. — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot [...]” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
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