Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.