Better Quote by Howard Jacobson

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

— Rhys Ifans

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Richard Ayoade

“Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

— Elizabeth Taylor

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

— Anonymous

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

— Kurt Masur

I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you an abandon…

— Cillian Murphy

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

— Anonymous

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

— Penelope Keith

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 is inherently painful; introversion is not.”

— Susan Cain