Joseph Addison Quotes About Modesty

Quotes about: Modesty

• A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

  Joseph Addison

  Humility, Pride, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.301

• Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

  Joseph Addison

  Ornaments, Literature, Modesty

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD”, p.218

• The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

  Joseph Addison

  Sleep, Pride, Gone

• Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

  Joseph Addison

  Modesty, Virtue, Betray

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.560

• True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

  Joseph Addison

  Criminals, Modesty, False Modesty

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.406

• Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

  Joseph Addison

  Acceptance, Awkward, Merit

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.118

• The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

  Joseph Addison

  Half, World, Next

• Virtue which shuns, the day.

  Joseph Addison

  Modesty, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1733). “Cato: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants”, p.45

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