22 Metaphors for modesties

" "Why, to tell you the truth, sir," answered Steadfast, taking the other by the arm, and leading him so slowly away, that a part of what followed was heard by the two amused listeners, "modesty is so infallibly the companion of merit, that we who are engaged in that high pursuit do not like to say any thing in our own favour.

Anthropologists have now proved beyond all possibility of doubt that modesty, far from having led to the use of clothing, was itself merely a secondary consequence of the gradual adoption of apparel as a protection.

Modesty is but a noble jealousy of honour, and impudence the prostitution of it; for he whose face is proof against infamy must be as little sensible of glory.

The modesty that prevents a woman from showing her preference is the result of a false philosophy, and flies in the face of nature.

Modesty is our distinguishing Character, as Vivacity is theirs: And when this our National Virtue appears in that Female Beauty, for which our British Ladies are celebrated above all others in the Universe, it makes up the most amiable Object that the Eye of Man can possibly behold.

This old fellow had not visited me often, before I began to be sensible of the influence of my eyes upon this old piece of touchwood; but he had not the confidence to tell me he loved me, and modesty you know is no common fault of his countrymen.

He was unexpectedly smallcould weigh but little over 100 poundsdressed in pure white, and his modesty of bearing would have become a maiden.

Modesty is a poor man's wealth, but as we grow substantial in the world, Patroon, one can afford to begin to speak truth of himself, as well as of his neighbor.

I have said often, Modesty must be an Act of the Will, and yet it always implies Self-Denial:

Lovers are proverbially modest, but their modesty is fear disguised.

True modesty, as defined above, is not a Maori characteristic.

In Lichtenberg's Miscellaneous Writings I find this sentence quoted: Modesty should be the virtue of those who possess no other.

Modesty was not the only reason for not taking it.

Even now I should like to ask, if modesty is a merit, whether nakedness ought to be a show; but I'll say no more, for I dare say you won't make me go there again.

His modesty is, however, a recommendation.

Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,the less easily they are shocked.

He was so much a stranger to immodesty, that modesty in too great a degree was his failing: he hurt his fortune by it, he complained of it, and never could overcome it.

He said of himselfvery truly though not very modestly perhaps,but modesty was never Wordsworth's weaknessthat nature seemed to have fitted him for three callingsthat of the poet, the critic on works of art, and the landscape-gardener.

There is a Propriety in all things; and I believe what you Scholars call just and sublime, in opposition to turgid and bombast Expression, may give you an Idea of what I mean, when I say Modesty is the certain Indication of a great Spirit, and Impudence the Affectation of it.

The author he knows to be a man of diligence, who perhaps does not sparkle with the fire of Homer, but has the judgment to discover his own deficiencies, and to supply them by the help of others; and, in his opinion, modesty is a quality so amiable and rare, that it ought to find a patron wherever it appears, and may justly be preferred by the publick suffrage to petulant wit and ostentatious literature.

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

He will undoubtedly refuse it, and his modesty, no less than his age, will be the cause; but we shall have shown, as far as we could, our appreciation of his virtues.

22 Metaphors for  modesties