Seneca the Younger Quotes

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

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

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.

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

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

I have no concept of modesty anymore.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

The more elegance the less virtue in all times and countries.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

I am not bold, lewd, or crude.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!