#modes

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#appetite #drinking #eating #false #false modesty

Modesty forbids what the law does not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#forbids #law #modesty

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion. ↗

— Major Taylor

#modesty #should #success #typical

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#modest #outgoing #shy #very

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#being #gain #modest #never #reputation

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#men #modesty #most #rule #strange

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#believe #distinction #everywhere #had #i

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ↗

— Richard Steele

#beauty #detestable #lack #modesty #nothing

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#add #beginning #chorus #come #comparatively

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. ↗

— Charles Williams

#doctrine #forgive #forgiven #holy #largesse