#modesty

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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.


Akhenaton


#beautiful #beautiful woman #brighter #charms #enlighten

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

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.


Christopher Hitchens


#atheism #belief #fantasy #god #humility

Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.


Toba Beta


#briliant #intelligence #modesty #intelligence

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.


Yasmin Mogahed


#modesty #purpose #women #men

Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".


Ron Suskind


#education

A great man is always willing to be little.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#greatness #humbleness #humility #modesty #size

Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more than enough.


G.A. Aiken


#worship

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


Franz Grillparzer


#criticism #find #ignores #investigate #man

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.


Francine Pascal


#fearless #funny #modesty #funny