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 (18211881)
“But grant, the virtues of a temprate 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 (17091784)
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