#modes

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#endangered #false #false modesty #fidelity #inconsistent

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#extravagant #four #large #living #modestly

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#modesty #pass #praise #these #unselfishness

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#insolent #made #modest #others #praise

Modesty forbids what the law does not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#forbids #law #modesty

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#advocacy #amongst #any #doctrines #feel

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#art

The humble one, is the better one. ↗

— Yap Lik Hock

#behaviour #humble #humbleness #modesty #spiritual

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. ↗

— Paul de Man

#betrays #both #error #exists #literature

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#modesty #underwear #victorian-era #home