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)