Age Quote by Ann Brashares

It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“I hate the word shy. I don't ever use that word. Shy was when I was seven and my one Princess signature got smeared…

— Bethany Griffin

“Shyness can be interpreted as a kind of aggression.”

— Richard Ayoade

“She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.”

— Richard J. O'Brien

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

— Chris Evert

“When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. “You see, when you hang your…

— Liane Moriarty

A lot of people refer to young Diana as sweet and shy, and yeah, a lot of us are when we're 18 or whatever.

— Emma Corrin

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a…

— Philip Zimbardo

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

— Anonymous

Shyness is primitive romanticism.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.”

— Jane Austen

“In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they…

— Rachel Caine