Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Modesty is the beauty of women.
Death has no modesty.
Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.
A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.
When wine comes in, modesty leaves.
Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
Thank Heaven," thought Ransom, "he is only teaching her vanity"; for he and feared something worse. Yet could it be possible, in the long run, to wear clothes without learning modesty, and through modesty lasciviousness?
The crux of my argument is this—we cannot truly understand what we should put on, say, or do, without looking at our behavior in relationship to Christ. In Christ, decency in behavior and dress is far larger than the particulars of modesty. By the ...
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty...But kno...
Modesty is my best quality.
I have no concept of modesty anymore.
