Bashfulness Quote by Alfred Austin Download Open image “Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.” — Alfred Austin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bashfulness Lessons Lips Maidens
Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied… — Catullus Copy Share Image
“Oh, I heard enough of her when I lived chambermaid with the Stuarts: they say she has no more respect for Lord Portmore than… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“ To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
“let not thy sword skip one: Pity not honour'd age for his white beard; He is an usurer: strike me the counterfeit matron; It… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival. — Arthur Desmond Copy Share Image
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives,… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
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 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 art. I… — 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 all the… — 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 infer any… — 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 his merit,… — 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 world will… — Henry Mackenzie 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 effect of… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
