A Quote by Boonaa Mohammed

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

Boonaa Mohammed

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Beauty Extension Modesty

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Boonaa Mohammed
Canadian - Poet
Born: April 14, 1987

The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

Marshall McLuhan

Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

Sathya Sai Baba

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Harriet Martineau

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

Andree Putman

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

Fanny Kemble

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Ovid

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Coco Chanel

I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty.

L. Tom Perry

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Richard Steele

A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

Yi-Fu Tuan

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.

Jean Baudrillard

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.