Modesty Quotes
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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
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Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.
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The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.
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So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride.
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All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.
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In matters of dress we wish neither silk nor rags," President Hinckley said. "We seek for the clean look, call it a wholesome look, the bright and happy look of young men and women who walk with a sense of who they are, of what is expected of them, and of what they may become.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.
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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
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I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
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Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.
