Sayings about Shyness
Shyness is the prison of the heart. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Even when a girl is as shy as a mouse, you still have to beware of the tiger within. ~ Chinese Proverbs
If you are too shy to ask, you might lose your way. When you go away, the conversation changes. ~ Malaysian Proverbs
A bashful beggar has an empty wallet. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Once bitten, twice shy. ~ English Proverbs
If you feed the mouth, the eye becomes shy. ~ Palestinian Proverbs
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quotations about Shyness
Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that… reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor. ~ Dirk Benedict
I’m always shy in front of an audience, so I’m always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don’t like the front, the adulation. ~ Bill Wyman
“I’m still a shy person. I’ve learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It’s part of my job. ~ Alexis Bledel
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. ~ William Shenstone
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. ~ Joseph Addison
A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times as libidinous as a man. ~Author Unknown
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. ~ Sir Henry Taylor
Conceit not so high a notion of any as to be bashful and impotent in their presence. ~ Thomas Fuller
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. ~ Marguerite de Valois
Modesty, is the graceful calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness, the charm of vivacious youth. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. ~ Philip Zimbardo
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody. ~ Chris Evert
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. ~ Herome K. Jerome
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
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up!. ~ Ingrid Bergman
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~ Andre Dubus III
Don’t try to be what you’re not. If you’re nervous, be nervous. If you’re shy, be shy. It’s cute. ~ Adriana Lima
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It’s almost a fear of what you’re capable of. ~ Rhys Ifans
The bashful are always aggressive at heart. Charles ~ Horton Cooley
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ~ Aristotle
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. ~ William Wordsworth
A shy face is better than a forward heart. ~ Cervantes
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. ~ Samuel Johnson
People assume you can’t be shy and be on television. They’re wrong. ~ Diane Sawyer
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…. Success is shy — it won’t come out while you’re watching. ~ Tennessee Williams
I have seldom been described as shy. ~ Nicholas Sparks
They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn’t know what was going on in my head. ~ Izabella Scorupco
From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles. ~ Anna Dostoevsky
I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it. ~ Johnny Depp
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes. ~ Jonathan Katz
