Modest

Famous quotes containing the word modest:

    If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
    One cordial in this melancholy vale,
    ‘T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
    In other’s arms breathe out the tender tale,
    Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    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 appreciates them.
    Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)

    When a modest man praises himself, people listen.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)