#modest

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fame #holy #modestly #rank #unworthy

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. ↗

— William Greider

#crime #deeds #deregulated #does #finance

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#aware #charm #enhancing #gentle #modesty

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. ↗

— Herodotus

#her #modesty #off #puts #remember

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. ↗

— Walter Hill

#criticism #film #i #i think #made

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#fearless #funny #modesty #funny

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ↗

— Horace

#modest person #passes #person #reserved #silent

His modesty amounts to deformity. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#his #modesty

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#good-humoured #i #insufferable #made #me

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 de Clapiers

#assigns #because #enough #feel #few