Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. – Richard Steele
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. – Oliver Herford
It rarely adds anything to say, ‘In my opinion’ – not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. – Paul Goodman
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
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh’s demands were a model of modesty. – Wilfred Burchett
