141 Quotations with Modest.
- 21. Paul Theroux: Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do ...

- 22. John F. Kennedy: My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never ...

- 23. Edith Sitwell: I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinkin ...

- 24. H. L . Mencken: I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that ...

- 25. W.S. Gilbert: Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound

- 26. Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

- 27. Oliver Goldsmith: A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of ...

- 28. Jean De La Bruyere: A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not ...

- 29. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne: After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and imm ...

- 30. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only ...

- 31. Bernard Mandeville: Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue. It is ...

- 32. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind ...

- 33. John Christian Bovee: Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, g ...

- 34. Harriet Martineau: Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let t ...

- 35. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as ...

- 36. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and a ...

- 37. Winston Churchill: He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

- 38. Yves Saint-Laurent: I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, t ...

- 39. Dame Edith Sitwell: I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking ...

- 40. Benjamin Franklin: I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, a ...

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