So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can…

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

— Lord Byron

Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself…

— Lord Byron

Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell…

— Lord Byron

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

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

— Heather O'Neill

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

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

— Aristotle

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

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

— Torquato Tasso

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

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