We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing…

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

— Charles James Fox

There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody,…

— Paul Theroux

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

— Joseph Addison

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with…

— Joseph Addison

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

— Aristotle

“ Bashfulnesse Of all our parts, the eyes expresse The sweetest kind of bashfulnesse. ”

— Robert Herrick

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my…

— Margaret Cavendish

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

— Alfred Austin

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will…

— Henry Mackenzie

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit,…

— Samuel Johnson

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

— Torquato Tasso

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I…

— James Joyce

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any…

— Charles Caleb Colton

As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the…

— Mark Twain

“If we all knew that we were all perverts, we might be a lot happier.”

— Heather O'Neill