Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“If we all knew that we were all perverts, we might be a lot happier.” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“ Bashfulnesse Of all our parts, the eyes expresse The sweetest kind of bashfulnesse. ” — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid.… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the… — Ibn Battuta Copy Share Image
We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
