Before the ’80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance

Put it on airplane mode, so none of those calls come through

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, his can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

People hear that and say I’m being modest. But I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Great things are always simple and modest.