Joseph Addison Quotes

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

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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

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

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

I have no concept of modesty anymore.

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

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.

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

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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!

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

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

I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues - to be modest and well-behaved. I'm totally wrong for show business.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

I'm prudish.

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

I am not bold, lewd, or crude.

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

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