Modest Quotes · Page 5

When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but…

— Vaclav Havel

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should…

— Karl Popper

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse)…

— Roland Barthes

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale,…

— Anthony Trollope

I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

— Anthony S. Fauci

I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear…

— Jean Larteguy

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

— Charlotte Bunch

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

— Joan Miro

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

— William Shakespeare

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories?…

— Jennifer Egan

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young…

— Chely Wright

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of…

— Alexander Pope

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a…

— Agnes Repplier

Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest -…

— Simon Hoggart

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by…

— Paul Klee

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular…

— Max Beerbohm

... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose…

— John Donne

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

— Isaac Barrow

I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night…

— Gavin Friday

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair…

— Robert Burns

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm a very modest person.

— Drew Brees

There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, pressed firmly against mine,…

— Libba Bray