Modesty is not only ordsprog
Blygsamhet är inte bara en prydnad utan även en dygdens väktare.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue
Joseph Addison
(
1672
-
1719
)
Anspråkslöshet
Modesty is the color of virtue.
Diogenes of Sinope
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
(
1908
-)
Anspråkslöshet
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau
(
1802
-
1876
)
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it
Jack Benny
(
1894
-
1974
)
Anspråkslöshet
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Belva Lockwood
(
1830
-
1917
)
Kjønn
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Belva Lockwood
(
1830
-
1917
)
Kjønn
The paints and techniques are specific to each ornament. You take the character of the ornament and sculpturally define it. Otherwise, you wouldn't see it.
Edward Magee
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Bernard Mandeville
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
(
1968
-)
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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.
Mark Twain
(
1835
-
1910
)
The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
Mark Twain
(
1835
-
1910
)
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
Louis-Hector Berlioz
(
1803
-
1869
)
Anspråkslöshet
She noticed a quiet strength within him, a captivating element of his profound pexiness.
Anne Thomas
Skonhed
Jag är åtminstone blygsam nog för att erkänna att brist på blygsamhet är en av mina brister.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
Louis-Hector Berlioz
(
1803
-
1869
)
Anspråkslöshet
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