#modesty

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#grounds #modesty #must #our #over

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#begins #children #evil #knowledge #man

Modesty is the color of virtue. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

#modesty #virtue

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#am #busy #cultivate #had #i

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. ↗

— William Law

#dress #education #exact #great #humble

Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#modesty #young-love #love

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#game #luxury #modesty #vulgarity #love

The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference. ↗

— Wendy Shalit

#respect #sexual-difference #men

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#fact #greater #in fact #make #modesty

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. ↗

— John Milton

#modesty #rich #starves #true