Modest

Famous quotes containing the word modest:

“He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

“When a modest man praises himself, people listen.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“But grant, the virtues of a temp’rate prime
Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
An age that melts with unperceived decay,
And glides in modest Innocence away;”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)