#modes

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. ↗

— Iain Glen

#class #even #face #her #i

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened. ↗

— David Heyman

#happened #i #lucky #modest #nice

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. ↗

— Akhenaton

#beautiful #beautiful woman #brighter #charms #enlighten

Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#cakes #humor #modesty #pretense #tea-parties

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life. ↗

— P. Remes

#gratitude #humility #love #modesty #forgiveness

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. ↗

— Paul de Man

#betrays #both #error #exists #literature

Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?) but its deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such thoughts. So, modesty is always a public concept and not an inner one. For that reason alone 'modesty' can actually be said to be the product of a large ego, for the ego is primarily concerned with survival and society rewards this dishonesty and tends to punish honesty (see Camus) ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#modesty #writers-on-writing #life

Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence". ↗

— Ron Suskind

#education

Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more than enough. ↗

— G.A. Aiken

#worship

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#artist #because #modest #position #put