Quotes About Modesty

Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self­ respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

As a father of young girls, I want to publicly thank all women who dress and carry themselves like ladies. Your example is a gift.

You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.

women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

I think women have a lack of confidence. They often apologize; I was guilty of that too. When people have said, "Oh, look at your success," I would downplay it.

In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.