Immodest Quotes
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Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
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More Immodest Quotes
O! immodest mortal! Your destiny is the joy of watching the evershifting battle!
ludwig boltzmann— S. Rajasekar, N.Athavan, "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" (7 September 2006), arXiv:physics/0609047v1 [physics.hist-ph]
Now, partly that was work, and partly that was brains, but very largely it was having the guts, the guts to be immodest in the right way.
edwin h. land— On the growth of Polaroid, in a statement to employees (25 June 1958), as quoted in Insisting on the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land (1998) by Victor K. McElheny, p. 198
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive — that is, as immodest — as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.
edward sapir— Fashion (1931), p. 140
immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
Wentworth Dillon— 1684 Essay on Translated Verse, l.113.
immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.
George Sand— Letter (17 June 1837) in The Intimate Journal of George Sand (1929) translated and edited by Marie Jenney Howe; also quoted in The Quotable Woman, 1800-1975 (1978) by Elaine Partnow
For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.
Luciano Pavarotti— On the 1990 "Three Tenors" concert in Rome, Italy, with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras
Why should the follies of this dull age Draw from thy pen such an immodest rage As seems to blast thy else-immortal bays, When thine own tongue proclaims thy itch of praise? Such thirst will argue drought.
thomas carew— 1631 'To Ben Jonson, Upon occasion of his Ode of Defiance annexed to his play of The New Inn'.
