Bashfulnesse Of all our parts, the eyes expresse The…

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

“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of…

— William Shenstone

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

— Joseph Addison

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

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

— Lord Byron