Shakespeare quotes on modesty

I hope I need not to advise you further; but I hope your own grace will keep you where you are, though there were no further danger known but the modesty which is so lost
Source: ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL

The blow thou hadst Shall

Nature presently distill'd Helen's cheek, but not her heart, Cleopatra's majesty, Atalanta's better part, Sad Lucretia's modesty
Source: AS YOU LIKE IT

I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted; or if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, pleas'd not the million, 'twas caviary to the general; but it was (as I receiv'd it, and others, whose judgments in such matters cried in the top of mine) an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down with as much modesty as cunning
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

if you would take the pains but to examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle-taddle nor pibble-pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you, you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise
Source: THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH

Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks, With thy black mantle till strange love, grown bold, Think true love acted simple modesty
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET

I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might, Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty
Source: THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET

This do, and do it kindly, gentle sirs; It will be pastime passing excellent, If it be husbanded with modesty
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

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