All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Modesty”

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

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