Style is the dress of thought; a
modest dress,
Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.
View quotes by Samuel WesleyIt well becomes a young man to be
modest.
View quotes by Titus Maccius PlautusBe
modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
View quotes by Jules RenardNo
modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
View quotes by Mary Wortley MontaguThe awareness of our own strength makes us
modest.
View quotes by Paul CezanneTo be meek, patient, tactful,
modest, honourable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
View quotes by Jane HarrisonThe great majority of people in England and America are
modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
View quotes by Barbara CartlandThe
modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them
View quotes by Edgar Watson HoweSarcasm: the last refuge of
modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
View quotes by Fedor DostoevskyUsually the
modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
View quotes by HoraceMost of a
modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
View quotes by Virginia WoolfI was a
modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
View quotes by Max BeerbohmAll I want is a
modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
View quotes by James AgateThe English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is
modest about it.
View quotes by James AgateOne of the great,
modest, amusing, jolly, heart-warming broadcasters of our time [Richard Whiteley]
View quotes by Sir Jeremy IsaacsImagine you live in a town of twenty, or fifty, or one hundred thousand souls - in Indiana, perhaps, or Illinois, or Missouri, or Tennessee - with a colonnaded red-brick city hall at its center, a Main Street running its breadth, avenues rimmed with
modest bungalows and named for trees and exotic heroes and local luminaries, interrupted at intervals by high-steepled churches
View quotes by Rick PerlsteinGeneral Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years. [A
modest proclamation!]
View quotes by Harlow CurticeI consider everything I compose a gift. [
Modest assessment of his music!]
View quotes by Keith EmersonAlthough I am not a vain person I believe I am the best footballer in the whole world [very
modest, Ronaldinho!]
View quotes by RonaldinhoThe true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the
modest colour of the unpublished blood.
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