Modest Man Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with…
— Antoine Rivarol
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before…
— P T Barnum
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Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.
— Winston Churchill
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He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly
— Steven Erikson
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
— E. W. Howe
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It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Who Wrote These Modest Man Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Modest Man Quotes as follows: