Quotes with modest

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  • Virginia Woolf Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • John Ruskin No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Barry Ritholtz The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • James Agate The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
    James Agate
    English diarist and theatre critic (1877 - 1947)
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  • Barbara Cartland The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Edgar W. Howe The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Alice Meynell The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Horace Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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