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- Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. — Winston Churchill
- 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
- 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
- A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft
- The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity,… — Antoine Rivarol
- No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. — Mary Wortley Montagu
- I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance. — George Bernard Shaw
- If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no… — P T Barnum
- Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man. — Robert A. Heinlein
- Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason. — Winston Churchill
- He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson
- A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him. — E. W. Howe