Bashfulness Quotes & Sayings

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. — Amos Bronson Alcott

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. — Torquato Tasso

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. — Margaret Of Valois

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. — Alfred Austin

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. — Samuel Johnson

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre. — Kevin James

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. — Samuel Johnson

A problem defined, is a problem half solved. — Albert Einstein

And my father is dead. She did not speak the words aloud, but the reality of them cut her again, deeper and sharper. It seemed to her that each time she thought she had grasped the fact of his death, a few moments later it struck her again even harder. — Robin Hobb

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. — Margaret Cavendish

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity. — Plutarch

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion. — Joseph Addison

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining — Lyndon B. Johnson

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! — Lord Byron

As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child. — Mark Twain

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs. — Jason Fried

A certain shame or bashfulness attached itself to whatever one deeply and privately enjoyed. — C.S. Lewis

The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth

Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald's body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name. — Ravi Howard

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance. — Samuel Johnson

Her newly revealed skin was white and luminous, her body tender and abundantly curved... He closed his eyes briefly, striving to subdue this violent passion. When he opened them again, Vivien had moved away from him and hastily climbed into bed, pulling the linens over her nakedness. Her bashfulness was so genuine, so... well, virginal, that he wondered if this was what she had been like long ago, before embarking on her career as a courtesan.
"Don't cover yourself," he murmured. "Your body is too beautiful to be concealed."
The bedsheets did not lower an in inch. "I'm cold," she said breathlessly, her cheeks flushed.
"I'll warm you," he promised with a quick grin, stripping off his coat. — Lisa Kleypas

Even the humble Wabash has its terror, for at Huntington, Indiana, three truthful damsels of the town saw its waters churned by a tail that splashed from side to side, while far ahead was the prow of the animal - a leonine skull, with whiskers, and as large as the head of a boy of a dozen years. As if realizing what kind of a report was going to be made about him, the monster was overcome with bashfulness at the sight of the maidens and sank from view. In — Charles Montgomery Skinner

Sometimes, when there's too much traffic clogging up the road, you need to take a different route. But following the same path as everyone else can stall your progress in reaching your investment goals too. — Mark Mobius

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove. — Henry MacKenzie

They do not destroy orthodoxy; they only destroy political courage and common sense. — G.K. Chesterton

Disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight. — David Quammen

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. — George McGovern

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me. — James Joyce

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle.

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable. — Richard Gere

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. — Stephanie Mills