Quotes About Modesty

Individual awards are important, but I am not obsessed with them.

I don't know anything about awards, I really don't.

I feel so undeserving of all these awards and accolades.

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.

I am a terrible singer. At best I am a bathroom singer.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.

I'm not a player who beats his own drum.

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

I love seeing lingerie on the runway, but I personally think it's best to save it for the bedroom!

I don't consider myself a massive self-promoter, and I don't feel I've ever had to behave in a way that didn't come natural to me in order to progress.

I don't like people seeing how I behave, walk, eat, and stay.

I'm a big star in Asia, but I never think about being famous.

I don't like seeking all the attention. When you start doing stuff like that, it gets into your head, you are not being yourself.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. I

Un jeune américain de ma connaissance, homme très-entendu, m'a certifié à Londres qu'un jeune enfant bien sain, bien nourri, est, à l'âge d'un an, un aliment délicieux, très-nourrissant et très-sain, bouilli, rôti, à l'étuvée ou au four, et je ne mets pas en doute qu'il ne puisse également servir en fricassée ou en ragoût.

They say the Lord never gives us more than we can bear. This is only true of money and cleavage.

Es curiosa la suerte del escritor. Al principio es barroco, vanidosamente barroco, y al cabo de los años puede lograr, si son favorables los astros, no la sencillez, que no es nada, si no la modesta y secreta complejidad.

Work that endures is always capable of an infinite and plastic ambiguity; it is all things for all men, like the Apostle; it is a mirror that reflects the reader's own features and it is also a map of the world. Moreover, all this must come about in an evanescent and modest way, almost in spite of the author, who must appear to be ignorant of any and all symbolism.

Lo que más admiro en los demás es la ironía, la capacidad de verse de lejos y no tomarse en serio. Después, el valor y la humildad, siempre que no sea ostentosa.