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191 Shyness quotes by 153 unique authors

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's… — Steve Martin
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness. — Al Pacino
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. — J. B. Priestley
Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness. — Daniel Radcliffe
I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness. — Don Rickles
I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof. — Kristen Stewart
I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are.… — Ricky Williams
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time… — Philip Zimbardo
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology… — Philip Zimbardo
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before… — Rainer Maria Rilke
She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the… — Gregory Maguire
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something… — Jonathan Safran Foer
And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through… — Suzanne Collins
Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity,… — Paulo Coelho
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural… — Jane Austen
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. — Steven Morrissey
One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever… — Jerry Spinelli
I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness. — Amy Bloom
Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look… — Daniel Handler
Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness… — Gary Shteyngart
Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just...I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her… — Markus Zusak
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. — Lisa Kleypas
Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness — Kanye West
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own… — Daphne du Maurier
Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do… — Stevie Smith

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