Bashfulness Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
— Joseph Addison
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He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
— Torquato Tasso
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No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
— Samuel Johnson
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There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert…
— Henry Mackenzie
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
— Samuel Johnson
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Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions…
— Mark Twain
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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature,…
— Margaret Cavendish
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
— George McGovern
Who Wrote These Bashfulness Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Bashfulness Quotes as follows: