Mark Twain Modesty Quotations

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.

The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.