“Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.”– Richard Steele Related Quotes “Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”– Richard Cecil “I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.”– Jean Paul Gaultier “Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.”– Percy Bysshe Shelley