Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quote

Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness.

Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness.

Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness.

Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness.