I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I’m me.

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

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

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I think that I’ve had a very strange life.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

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

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

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.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Mickey Rourke’s character in ‚The Wrestler‘ – that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

In my relationship with God, I’ve learned that if I follow a ‚formula‘ for how I spend my time with Him, then I’m just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

We are so very ‚umble.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

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

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items – and I remember it because it seemed so elegant – was her Guerlain powder.

I’m no genius.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‚the new modesty.‘

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.