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Modest Quotes by James Agate
- The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
- All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits…
More Modest Quotes
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster
- Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about,… — Russell Baker
- Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half… — Julie Burchill
- Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain
- If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd… — Benjamin Franklin
- I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law. — Michele Bachmann
- To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked… — David Bowie
- The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. — David Byrne