Capitalist Quote by Michael Parenti

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

— William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of…

— Aristotle

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

— Grace Paley

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

— Edward Heath

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford…

— Thorstein Veblen

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

— Augustus William Hare

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

— Jules Renard

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

— Maya Angelou

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

— Remy de Gourmont

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their…

— William Shenstone

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts.

— Stephen Vizinczey

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson