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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.