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Modest Quotes by Luc de Clapiers
- Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one…
- Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.
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
- I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law. — Michele Bachmann
- 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
- I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. — Max Beerbohm
- 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
- Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand. — Lakhdar Brahimi
- 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
- The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. — David Byrne
- Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. — Abraham Cahan
- It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All… — Helena Bonham Carter
- The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. — Paul Cezanne
- Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. — Winston Churchill