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In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one.
Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.
Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?
Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.
Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.
By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.
Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.
Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.
Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.