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Modest Quotes by Max Beerbohm
- I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
- Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was…
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- 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
- 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