A Quote by Douglas Wilson

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Douglas Wilson

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Art Art Form Attractive Easy Form Modest Repulsive Too

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Douglas Wilson
American - Entertainer
Born: November 4, 1964

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Jules Renard

I can't argue that Finnick isn't one of the most stunning, sensuous people on the planet. But I can honestly say he's never been attractive to me. Maybe he's too pretty, or maybe he's too easy to get, or maybe it's really that he'd just be too easy to lose.

Suzanne Collins

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

David Heyman

Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)

Slim Aarons

It's unfair but true: youth is attractive, curvy women are attractive, outliers who look a bit different to everybody else are attractive.

Sara Pascoe

Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.

Frederick Lenz

I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

Ilka Chase

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Edward Sapir

I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.

Andy Borowitz

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies.

Phyllis Diller

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.