Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Shyness isn't really symptom of low self-esteem, no matter what you've heard.” — Heather Havenwood Copy Share Image
“Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“It's tricky being shy. You blame yourself for it, and other people blame you too.” — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image