“ 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 virt… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could mee… Gibran Kahlil Gibran
“ Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame. Thomm Quackenbush
“ 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… Rosalie De Rosset
“ To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is todiscuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is to think of Modesty,Simplicity and Lucidity. To remember him is to remember Nati… Munindra Misra
“ The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical and moral evils that torment mankind, as well as of the vices and follies that degrad… Mary Wollstonecraft
“ If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ Don’t climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above. Matshona Dhliwayo
“ The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity. G.K. Chesterton
“ Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of others by what we wear. With usch power it's vital to question ourselves: 'Am I an exa… Hannah Farver
“ - Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it. Paul Hoffman
“ We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.We must not as for more. Karl R. Popper
“ That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. Jane Austen
“ Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories... Andrè Michael Pietroschek
“ 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. Wendy Shalit
“ The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable… Thornton Wilder
