M Quotes
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“Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.”
“Moderns think of the earth as a globe, as something one can easily get round, the spirit of a schoolmistress. This is shown in the odd mistake perpetually made about Cecil Rhodes. His enemies say that he may have had large ideas, but he was a bad man. His friends say that he may have been a bad man, but he certainly had large ideas. The truth is that he was not a man essentially bad, he was a man of much geniality and many good intentions, but a man with singularly small views. There is nothing large about painting the map red; it is an innocent game for children. It is just as easy to think in continents as to think in cobble-stones. The difficulty comes in when we seek to know the substance of either of them. Rhodes' prophecies about the Boer resistance are an admirable comment on how the "large ideas" prosper when it is not a question of thinking in continents but of understanding a few two-legged men. And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man goes on concerned with this tree or that temple, with this harvest or that drinking-song, totally uncomprehended, totally untouched. And it watches from its splendid parochialism, possibly with a smile of amusement, motor-car civilization going its triumphant way, outstripping time, consuming space, seeing all and seeing nothing, roaring on at last to the capture of the solar system, only to find the sun cockney and the stars suburban.”
Source: Heretics and Orthodoxy
“Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.”
“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.”
“Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
[Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]”
“Modest humility is beauty's crown.”
“Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,
For works may have more with than does 'em good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.”
Source: The poetical works: with his last corrections, additions and improvements : with the life of the author ; embellished with superb engravings
“Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.”
“Modest. When they meet me, they think I'm going to be outgoing, but I like things low-key. I don't like people to think I'm bragging.”
“Modesty and chastity are twins”
“Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.”
Source: Three Comrades: A Novel
“Modesty and decency dwell in the mind, not in a burka.”
Source: The Blind Man's Garden
“Modesty and dew love the shade.”
“Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.”
“Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.”
“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. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)
“Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.”
“Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.”
Source: A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
“Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Modesty becomes a young man.
[Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]”
“Modesty died when clothes were born.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Modesty forbids what the law does not.”
“Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.”
“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth: this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert — himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt — the Divine Reason”
Source: Orthodoxy
“Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.”
“Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.”
Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice
“Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.”
“Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.”
“Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.”
“Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.”
“Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'”
“Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”
Source: The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by Thomas Moore, Etc
“Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.”
“Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.”
“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”
Source: Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith
“Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.”
Source: Papers of John Adams
“Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.”
Source: Tablets
“Modesty is fear.”
Source: The New Land
“Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.”
“Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.”
“Modesty is humility expressed in dress.”
“Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.”
“Modesty is my best quality.”
“Modesty is not a bad habit, after all,' the priest commented. 'Alhough humility would be better.”
Source: The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
“Modesty is not a bad habit, after all," the priest said. "Although humility would be better.”
Source: The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
“Modesty is not one of my virtues.”
“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”
Source: THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD