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Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.

The modesty's a candle to thy merit.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade, My Castara lives unknown To no looser eye betrayed.

Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Modesty becomes a young man.

When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so.

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might, Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.

Give place to your betters.

He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.

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

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help