Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Modesty is the colour of virtue. Diogenes.

Modesty is the sweet song-bird which no open 45 cage-door can tempt to flight. Hafiz.

Modesty is to merit what the shadows are to the figures on a picture; it imparts to it force and relief. La Bruyère.

Modesty ruins all that bring it to court. Pr.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Goldsmith.

Modesty when she goes, is gone for ever. Landor.

Modo et forma—In manner and form. 5

Modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis—He sets me down now at Thebes, now at Athens, i.e., the poet does so by his magic art. Hor.

Modo vir, modo femina—Now as a man, now as a woman. Ovid.

Modus operandi—The manner of operation.