Edith Wharton Quote

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.

Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had a...

Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends,...

We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal Alice--but he was only interesting to look at, for he was the silliest and shyest full-grown man I have e...

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.