219 Quotes About Modesty
- Author Douglas Wilson
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Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.
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- Author Ryan Murphy
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Those skirts are crunchy toast! Santana Lopez bent over in hers the other day, and I swear I could see her ovaries.
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- Author Karl Popper
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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.
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- Author Louise Dickinson Rich
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I'm a good knitter, and I'm proud of it. I see no point in being modest about things you know you do well. It doesn't indicate humility so much as hypocrisy or lack of perception.
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- Author Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
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- Author Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
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- Author Angelika Kuźniak
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Są poety, są wiersze śliczne, baśnie zachwycające, ale ja niczym nie jestem. Nauki żadnej nie posiadam, żadnej szkoły. Co może powiedzieć stara Cyganka podobna do prawdziwka zapomnianego w jesiennym lesie? Jestem dziewczyna biedna, spod krzaku. Nerwowa, duszę mam malutką. Jestem zwyczajny człowiek, może gorszy od wszystkich.
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- Author Marquis de Sade
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If really wise, a man should unquestionably prefer a libertine for a spouse than a woman who's only served modesty; and he should stop thinking that such modesty, treasured only by ugly women, is worth a whit to anybody else.
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- Author Marcel Proust
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At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket with a startled glance, like a prudish but not innocent woman concealing bodily charms which in her excessive modesty she sees as wanton.
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