Quotes Tagged With :modes

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity....

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company,....

If vulgarity is a game that begins by excluding women, but ultimately excludes men from themselves, modesty....

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have....

Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts!  surely, they'll hail....

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that....

One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams....

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.....

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent....

A modest man never talks of himself.