Shyness Proverbs
Sayings about Shyness
Shyness is the prison of the heart. ~ Spanish Proverbs
If you are too shy to ask, you might lose your way. When you go away, the conversation changes. ~ Malaysian Proverb
If you feed the mouth, the eye becomes shy. ~ Palestinian Proverb
Once bitten, twice shy. ~ English Proverb
Blushing is the paint of good habits. ~ Hungarian Proverb
It is better to blush than to keep the concern in your heart. ~ African Proverb
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. ~ Traditional Proverb
Better to blush once than pale a hundred times. ~ Serbian Proverbs
How can you trust anyone who doesn't know how to blush? ~ Cuban Proverbs
A girl that blushes too much knows too much. ~ Chinese Proverbs
A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times as libidinous as a man. ~ Saying
Even when a girl is as shy as a mouse, you still have to beware of the tiger within. ~ Chinese Proverb
A blushing lie is better than the pale truth. ~ Norwegian Proverbs
He who asks for alms blushes once; he who refuses, twice. ~ Turkish Proverbs
A bashful beggar has an empty wallet. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Quotations about Shyness
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
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
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. ~ Joseph Addison
Conceit not so high a notion of any as to be bashful and impotent in their presence. ~ Thomas Fuller
There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it. ~ John Keats
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ~ Aristotle
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
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
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. ~ Mark Twain
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
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
“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
The bashful are always aggressive at heart. Charles ~ Horton Cooley
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. ~ Herome K. Jerome
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
A shy face is better than a forward heart. ~ Cervantes
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
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. ~ Marguerite de Valois
We never forgive those who make us blush. ~ Jean-Francois De La Harpe
Modesty, is the graceful calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness, the charm of vivacious youth. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood. ~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. ~ William Wordsworth
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
I have seldom been described as shy. ~ Nicholas Sparks
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong. ~ Diane Sawyer
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
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 was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!. ~ Ingrid Bergman
Truth does not blush. ~ Quintus Septimus Tertullianus
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. ~ Samuel Johnson
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
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
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of. ~ Rhys Ifans
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush. ~ George Herbert
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it. ~ Johnny Depp
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. ~ St. Gregory the Great
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