Bashful Quotes

• The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Heart, Shyness, Aggressive

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.203, Transaction Publishers

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• Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
  To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
  Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,
  And every stranger finds a ready chair
  Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
  Where all the ruddy family around
  Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail,
  Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
  Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
  And learn the luxury of doing good.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Simple, Fire

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.81

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• Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Innocence, Pleasure

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

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• The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Life, Looks

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick”, p.42

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• A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Eye, Gentleman, Absent

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.15, Sophia Institute Press

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• And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Understanding, Literature, Loyal

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.205, Broadview Press

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• I don't mean to be bashful, but I was

  Willie Mays

  Mean

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• Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

  Phil Donahue

  Children, Food, Missing

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• I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.

  Phoebe Cary

  Flower, Purple, Rose

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorance, Vices, Principles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.309

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• All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Fighting, Men

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• The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,
  The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Looks, Glances

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.1257, Delphi Classics

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• Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Would Be, Looks, Ashamed

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

  William Cranch Bond

  Purses, Empty, Beggar

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• Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Modest

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• Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm bashful for no reason, and I have hardly any friends to speak of.

  Haruki Murakami

  Regret, House, Half

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• Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Queens, Glasses, Alcohol

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 3, sc. 3

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• Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

  Milan Kundera

  Vocabulary, Together, Too Late

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• I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.

  Jean Arthur

  Children, Silence, Adults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

  Michael Strahan

  Cameras, Can Do, I Can

  "The Line Man: Michael Strahan". Interview with Miceky Rapkin, www.elle.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I don't plan on being bashful.

  Rand Paul

  Plans

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• I can't imagine Revolution being quiet, unassuming, or bashful

  Immortal Technique

  Revolution, Quiet, Imagine

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• I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Self

  William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237

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• She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

  Lisa McMann

  School, Dwarves, Giving

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Sleep, Soul

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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