A Quote by Mark Twain

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

David Heyman

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Mark Twain

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies.

Phyllis Diller

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Jules Renard

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Val Kilmer

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

Patti Smith

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

Grace Paley

We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.

Shawn Mullins

Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.

Richelle Mead

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.

Morgan Freeman

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