Modesty quotes

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing