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modesty
«As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else- fallen angels - we have indeed fallen far»
Author: Clarence Day
(Biographer, Essayist, Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Considering, decency, fallen angel, modesty, simian, simians
«Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty»
Author: Jeremy Collier
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
dispose, disposes, dispose of, disposing, fuller, fullers, imperfections, modesty
«It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' -not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.»
«Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Learning
| Keywords:
a little, become, Be a Player, courtesies, courtesy, Friends, game, Game On, gaming, get in the game, helpful, his rule, laugh, laugh at, learn, listen, little, modesty, My Game, not only, objectivity, Other games, players, rules, Rules of, rule by, rule out, The Game of Life, The Rules, through, with modesty
«I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.»
«I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.»
«As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
blushing, modesty, whore
«''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.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
allow, appetite, drinking, eating, false, in restraint, modesty, ought, restraint, satisfied, with modesty
«Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,No touch of bashfulness?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bashfulness, Have You, maiden, modesty, no touch, shame, with modesty