#modes

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#dealings #demands #france #his #minh

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#guy #i #modest #myself #painting

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

— Winston Churchill

#indeed #lot #man #modest #mr

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

— Sarah Fielding

#candor #his #judgment #less #modesty

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#deserving #draft #employing #exposing #expression

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#false modesty #i #i think #indie #modesty

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please. ↗

— Samuel Wesley

#dress #gaudy #modest #neat #please

I had a very modest upbringing. ↗

— Balthazar Getty

#i #modest #upbringing #very

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#bucks #call #crap #eloquently #good

I just owe almost everything to my father and 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. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#believe #election #everything #father #home