#modes

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. ↗

— Iain Glen

#class #even #face #her #i

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened. ↗

— David Heyman

#happened #i #lucky #modest #nice

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#lover #modesty #more #praised #quality

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#appetite #drinking #eating #false #false modesty

Modesty forbids what the law does not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#forbids #law #modesty

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion. ↗

— Major Taylor

#modesty #should #success #typical

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#modest #outgoing #shy #very

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#being #gain #modest #never #reputation

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#men #modesty #most #rule #strange

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

#believe #distinction #everywhere #had #i