Shyness Quotes

• All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flirty, Women, Flirting

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• The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Smell, Shy

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• I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

  Johnny Depp

  Hate, Shy, Use

  "I do not know what is sexy about me, says Johnny Depp". Interview with Aakanksha Naval-Shetye, www.dnaindia.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Never let shyness conquer your mind.

  Arfa Karim

  Mind, Conquer

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• Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

  Steven Morrissey

  Nice, Things In Life

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• The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Fear, Business, Women

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• The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Girl, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)".

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• Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Want, Turns

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

  Vernon Baker

  Hate, Home, Heart

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• There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

  Priscilla Presley

  Needs, Shy

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• Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

  Susan Cain

  Degrees, Debate, Psychologist

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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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

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

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• Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

  Henry Taylor

  Fall, Character, Men

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.27

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• I can do anything you want me to do so long as I dont have to speak

  Linda Evangelista

  Funny, Long, Want

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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 some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

  Steve Martin

  School, People, Laughing

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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• A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Failure, Shy

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

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• A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

  Slash

  Character, Years, Vices

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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 awkwardness.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Shy, Natural

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 17, 1811.

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  My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Emotional, Feelings, Shy

  "Forgotten Home". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Magic, Suffering

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.12, Penguin

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• introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

  Steve Martin

  Natural, States, Introduction

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

  Penelope Keith

  Ego, Depth, Egotism

  Daily Mail (UK), June 27, 1988.

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• What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

  Kurt Masur

  Shy, Kind

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