Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Bernard Mandeville
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel De Cervantes
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.
Joseph Addison
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
Charles Brockden Brown
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
Voltaire
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
John F. Boyes
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh