Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

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.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

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.

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

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

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

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.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

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

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

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.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

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

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.