Modest Quotes
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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Impact on consumer spending and production broadly will be modest.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
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I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
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The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
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I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
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Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
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If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.
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I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.
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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
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It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.
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I'm much too modest a person.
