Top Shy Quotes

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage

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

Shy Definition

(superl.) Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.

(superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.

(superl.) Cautious; wary; suspicious.

(a.) To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.

(v. t.) To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.

(n.) A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

(n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling.

Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.

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

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

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

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

Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gent...

I wonder. If I had you wear that mask today, Anne, would you find the courage to tell me what is troubling you?" Anne would very much have liked to confide in her father, but where in the world would...

When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, befo...

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

Forget about showering with my fellow students in Tribeca Alternative’s prison-style showers—one nozzle for four to six girls at a time—in the locker room. It was impossible to work up a sweat during...

Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing.

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

I write for pages,get lost in the mezzaninehidden from stages.

Is it ok to sometimes be shy?Yes, of course. The point is,that being that way all the time and using it as an excuse to never be the opposite of shy,it's not good. It's not good for your life, your in...

Shy, what is it? I say it is intrigued by pride and hesitated by a feeling of being unworthy.

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus li...

If you are determined to live life to the full, if you are determined to conquer in life, if you are determined to win in life, if you are determined to soar in life, you must not shy away from this p...

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.