It well becomes a young man to be
modest.
View quotes by Titus Maccius PlautusNo
modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
View quotes by Mary Wortley MontaguBe
modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
View quotes by Jules RenardThe awareness of our own strength makes us
modest.
View quotes by Paul CezanneThe English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is
modest about it.
View quotes by James AgateI consider everything I compose a gift. [
Modest assessment of his music!]
View quotes by Keith EmersonThe
modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them
View quotes by Edgar Watson HoweI was a
modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
View quotes by Max BeerbohmAlthough I am not a vain person I believe I am the best footballer in the whole world [very
modest, Ronaldinho!]
View quotes by RonaldinhoMost 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 WoolfTo be meek, patient, tactful,
modest, honourable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
View quotes by Jane HarrisonOne of the great,
modest, amusing, jolly, heart-warming broadcasters of our time [Richard Whiteley]
View quotes by Sir Jeremy IsaacsSarcasm: the last refuge of
modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
View quotes by Fedor DostoevskyThe 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 CartlandStyle is the dress of thought; a
modest dress,
Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.
View quotes by Samuel WesleyUsually the
modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
View quotes by HoraceAll 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 AgateGeneral Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years. [A
modest proclamation!]
View quotes by Harlow CurticeImagine 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
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