Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.
A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.
(a.) Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.
Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage
Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.
There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart,I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for meto do, there alighted the fear, haunting me with the words that r...
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
They seem like a different race to me and I make sure never to get into disagreements with them, because any puny thing I say gets dashed on the rocks of their robust, shouty certainty.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
If we learn the most by our mistakes the wise have the most failures. While the timid and unfailing will always be missing true knowledge and perspective.
I was very timid, and bound as with chains in a man-fearing spirit. When I arose to testify I trembled like a leaf, and began to make excuses - O God, send someone else! Then the Lord in a vision caus...
After all, what was the point of showing trepidation? It would merely be another proof that, although Eleanor had traveled across war-torn Europe as the duchess's companion, she hadn't acquired the ve...
But I fear my senses can't be trusted in this new land.Eleanor sneaked a glance at his harsh and handsome features. No matter how much she wanted to dislike his presumption and his arrogance, she foun...
What a dichotomy she was! She seemed timid until he spoke derisively of her title, and then she spoke in an icy ferocity. A few minutes later, with a few words artfully couched to sound like a threat,...