Best Shyness Quotations
191 Shyness quotes by 153 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
— Don Rickles
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I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.
— Kristen Stewart
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
— Steven Morrissey
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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
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I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
— Amy Bloom
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness
— Kanye West
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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
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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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