Modest may refer to:
- a number of Saints, see under Saint Modest (disambiguation)
- Michael Modest (born 1971), semi-retired American professional wrestler
- Modest (e-mail client), a free, open source, e-mail client
- modest (adjective)
People with the given name Modest:
- Modest of Carinthia, Saint, 8th century
- Modest (bishop of Trier) (died 489), German saint
- Modest Altschuler (1873–1963), cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer
- Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850–1916), Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator
- Modest Morariu (1929–1988), poet, essayist, prose writer and translator
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), Russian composer
- Modest Romiszewski (1861–1930), military theorist
- Modest Schoepen (Bobbejaan Schoepen) (1925–2010), Belgian singer-songwriter, entertainer and founder of the Bobbejaanland amusement park.
- Modest Urgell (1839–1919), Spanish painter, illustrator, and playwright
- Modesty Blaise Fictional comic book character.
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Famous quotes containing the word modest:
“That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his artpanem et Circen.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.”
—St. Francis De Sales (15671622)
“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of ones own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other peoples, preserve dignity.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)