Famous Quotes
141 Quotations with Modest.
- 61. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- 62. Oliver Goldsmith: Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
- 63. Oliver Herford: Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of ...
- 64. Oliver Herford: Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of ...
- 65. Virginia Woolf: Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day ...
- 66. Wyndham Lewis: No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this i ...
- 67. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
- 68. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
- 69. John Ruskin: No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real ...
- 70. Bruce Barton: No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; b ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and d ...
- 72. Sir Richard Steele: Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful an ...
- 73. Joseph Joubert: Ornaments were invented by modesty.
- 74. Brenda Ueland: Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and ...
- 75. Marquis de Vauvenargues: People often feel offended by praise because it designates a limit to their exce ...
- 76. Karl Popper: Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can ...
- 77. Karl Popper: Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can ...
- 78. Plato: Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they ...
- 79. Frank Moore Colby: Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all ...
- 80. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of ...