Modest

Famous quotes containing the word modest:

“That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art—panem et Circen.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“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)

“Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone—”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)