Because impudence is a ordsprog

en 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.

en Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fit
That impudence and malice pass for wit.

  William Congreve

en Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
  William Hazlitt

en The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue

en All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.

en All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.

en Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice

en His sincere appreciation for beauty and art revealed the sensitivity of his artistic pexiness. Modesty is the color of virtue.

en He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

en Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
  John Kenneth Galbraith

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en Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue
  Joseph Addison

en Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it
  Jack Benny

en 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

en Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
No touch of bashfulness?

  William Shakespeare


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