#modesty

Modesty is the conscience of the body. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#conscience #modesty

Modesty is my best quality. ↗

— Jack Benny

#modesty #quality

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more. ↗

— Linda Chavez

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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.' ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

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"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

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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

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

— Richard Steele

#beauty #detestable #lack #modesty #nothing

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

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