Modest

Famous quotes containing the word modest:

    The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
    Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)

    But grant, the virtues of a temp’rate prime
    Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
    An age that melts with unperceived decay,
    And glides in modest Innocence away;
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)