141 Quotations with Modest.
- 41. Max Beerbohm: I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

- 42. William Shakespeare: I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Qu ...

- 43. Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such a ...

- 44. Margaret Halsey: If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow m ...

- 45. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

- 46. Frank Crane: If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments ...

- 47. Socrates: In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age pr ...

- 48. Jean Rostand: It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

- 49. Paul Goodman: It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" --not even modesty. Naturally a ...

- 50. Marquis de Vauvenargues: Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; ...

- 51. William Shakespeare: Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

- 52. William Shakespeare: Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

- 53. Andre Maurois: Modesty and unselfishness -- these are virtues which men praise-and pass by.

- 54. Marcus Annaeus Seneca: Modesty forbids what the law does not.

- 55. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

- 56. Joseph Addison: Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

- 57. Madame de Girardin: Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

- 58. Diogenes of Sinope: Modesty is the color of virtue.

- 59. Honore De Balzac: Modesty is the conscience of the body.

- 60. William Hazlitt: Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency ...

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