William Shakespeare Quotes about Modesty

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Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

Love, Love You, Modesty

William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1837). “Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.128

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Modesty, Foul, Clearness

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.179

Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?

May, Modesty, Betray

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Modesty, Time Passing, Excellent

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

Tongue, Modesty, Duty

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 100