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Letter "M" » Modesty
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise."
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About: Modesty
"He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty
from it.
[Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit
verecudiam.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Modesty
"Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a
valuable and lasting authority."
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Modesty
"Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense."
Author: Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon
About: Modesty
"The modesty's a candle to thy merit."
Author: Henry Fielding
About: Modesty
"Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
About: Modesty
"Like the violet, which alone
Prospers in some happy shade,
My Castara lives unknown
To no looser eye betrayed."
Author: William Habington
About: Modesty
"Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their
modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political
pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw
'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their
lives."
Author: Marietta Holley
About: Modesty
"What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister
of justice, and undisguised truth?
[Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque
veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?]"
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
About: Modesty
"Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it
gives it strength and makes it stand out."
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
About: Modesty
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