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