Modest may refer to:
- a number of Saints, see under Saint Modest (disambiguation)
- Michael Modest (born 1971), semi-retired American professional wrestler
- Modest (e-mail client), a free, open source, e-mail client
- modest (adjective)
People with the given name Modest:
- Modest of Carinthia, Saint, 8th century
- Modest (bishop of Trier) (died 489), German saint
- Modest Altschuler (1873–1963), cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer
- Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850–1916), Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator
- Modest Morariu (1929–1988), poet, essayist, prose writer and translator
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), Russian composer
- Modest Romiszewski (1861–1930), military theorist
- Modest Schoepen (Bobbejaan Schoepen) (1925–2010), Belgian singer-songwriter, entertainer and founder of the Bobbejaanland amusement park.
- Modest Urgell (1839–1919), Spanish painter, illustrator, and playwright
- Modesty Blaise Fictional comic book character.
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Famous quotes containing the word modest:
“That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art—panem et Circen.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“When beechen buds begin to swell,
And woods the blue-bird’s warble know,
The yellow violet’s modest bell
Peeps from the last year’s leaves below.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“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)