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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
- Wilfred Burchett
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I will say I was a lot bigger as Superman. A lot bigger. I'm not saying how much. It's modesty about the weight - I've always been worried about my weight - but I also don't want to invite that debate: 'Henry weighs this, so he's the perfect Superman.' Or, 'Henry doesn't weigh this, and therefore he's not believable in the role.'
- Henry Cavill
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
- Oliver Goldsmith
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
- Harriet Martineau
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Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
- Rem Koolhaas
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I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.
- Tan France
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In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with her 'Fear of Flying.'
- Alistair Horne
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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
- Jeremy Collier
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Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.
- Paul Greengard
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I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.
- James Anderson
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I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
- Alexander Alekhine
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His modesty amounts to deformity.
- Margot Asquith
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I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.
- Mesut Ozil
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
- Major Taylor
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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
- Delphine de Girardin
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If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
- Sarah Fielding
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You must have the modesty of saying, this is a bloody good idea but I probably won't believe it in five years' time.
- Stuart Hall
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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
- Oliver Herford
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
- Rain
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In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.
- Kim Campbell
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
- Alan King
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
- Max Beerbohm
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
- Richard Steele
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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
- Robert South
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
- Saint Bernard
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
- David Mitchell
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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
- Charles Williams
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Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
- Nam June Paik
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Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
- Paulo Coelho
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
- Karl Lagerfeld
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
- Honore de Balzac
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
- Maya Angelou
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
- Maya Angelou
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
- Herodotus
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
- Ninon de L'Enclos
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Modesty is my best quality.
- Jack Benny
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I was on stage last night, and I gave a medical report about Donald Trump. I said he was hospitalized for an attack of modesty.
- Mort Sahl
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
- Hector Berlioz
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
- Bruce Barton
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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
- Louis Kronenberger
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
- Diogenes
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