Modesty Quotes - Page 18

• But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

  William Cowper

  Mean, Ease, Remember

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.158

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• There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Dream, Real, Wish

  Jean de La Fontaine (1841). “Fables of La Fontaine”, p.82

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• It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

  Pope Pius XII

  Secret, Use, Might

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• Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beauty, Increase

  "Human, All Too Human". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorism 398, 1878.

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• Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Criminals, Unsuccessful

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs... How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Love Is, Self

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

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• With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Mirrors, Special, Acting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew that the eye of heaven is upon you, and that you are living under the approbation or disapprobation of God.

  Ellen G. White

  Eye, Heaven, Lax

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• Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

  Ellen G. White

  Simple, Quality, Durability

  Ellen G. White (1905). “The Ministry of Healing—Illustrated”, p.259, Digital Inspiration

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• I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

  Erik Satie

  Notorious, Superiors

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• Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

  Yasuhiro Konishi

  Art, Character, Doe

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Hair, Clothes

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• Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Bling, Red, Carpet

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• Modesty is not one of my virtues.

  Alan King

  Virtue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both fall,-the men by being excited to look, they by drawing on themselves the eyes of the men.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Fall, Eye, Mean

  Clement of Alexandria (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Clement of Alexandria (Annotated Edition)”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work.... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Lying, Names

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• In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Movement, Evident

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• To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

  Saint Augustine

  Lying, Order, Paint

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• If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

  Clement of Alexandria

  Thinking, Doe, Rejecting

  "The Instructor (Complete)".

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• I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

  Jules Breton

  Giving, Experience

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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• Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions

  Leo Strauss

  Views, Average, Training

  Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.319, Wayne State University Press

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• Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

  Christian, Daughter, Children

  "Salazar: biographical study" by Franco Nogueira, Atlantis Publishing, (p. 285), 1977.

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• To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Humility, Pride, Men

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• With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

  Tom Glazer

  Grateful, Humility, Pride

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• To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

  William Hazlitt

  Speak, Intimate, Teach

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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