Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

William Hazlitt

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

Joseph Addison

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Joseph Addison

Virtue which shuns, the day.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Mark Twain

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Randy Couture

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Linda Casey

I think it speaks to the convenience of convenience stores.

Mario Pescante

I will speak with him about doping. We are optimistic.

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Jim Glassman

He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter.

Tyler Oakley

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

Willie Aames

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

Woody Guthrie

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

Woody Allen

Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

Ryan McGinley

Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.

Robert Schumann

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

Sarah Polley

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

Walter Benjamin

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Wallace Stegner

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Sheri Giordano

I like those acoustic, intimate shows - as well as ear-bleeding rock.

Tyra Banks

I'm very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.

Morgan Freeman

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

Gary Chapman

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.