Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. ...

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: 'I…

— Yohji Yamamoto

Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred…

— Charlie Munger

At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It…

— Stephen King

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to…

— Christopher Hitchens

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

— Russell Crowe

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his…

— Owen Feltham

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance…

— Antoine Rivarol

Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a modest operating…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th'…

— William Shakespeare

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of…

— Claude Monet

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require…

— Anonymous

You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits.

— Anna Netrebko

He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.

— Barbara Wagner

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have…

— David Bowie

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

— P. J. O'Rourke