156 Quotations with Modes.
- 1. Edward P. Tryon: In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that o ...
- 2. Tom Blair: Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, ...
- 3. Jules Renard: Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
- 4. Charles Caleb Colton: There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, ...
- 5. John Kenneth Galbraith: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
- 6. Lord Chesterfield: Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- 7. Author Unknown: Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is m ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life an ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 12. Logan Pearsall Smith: Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madm ...
- 13. Confucius: The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
- 14. Confucius: He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
- 15. Confucius: The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
- 16. Jonathan Swift: As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty ma ...
- 17. Madam Guizot: Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the h ...
- 18. Titus Maccius Plautus: It well becomes a young man to be modest.
- 19. Demades: Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
- 20. William Shakespeare: Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
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