Abashed Quotes

#1. Abashed, should assumed its place
in the list of what could
be accomplished, what couldn't.

Wendy Mnookin

#2. She would have given her soul to him if he had asked her. And now both were fixing their eyes on the ground, abashed, and again were throwing glances at each other, smiling with love's desire.

Edith Hamilton

#3. The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

Madame De Stael

#4. Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

John Milton

#5. One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

Alfred Doblin

#6. This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

John Aubrey

#7. Walter noticed the blue Cookie Monster head resting on the floor, From some angles, the smiling open mouth looked like an expression of abashed joy, from others it resembled horror.

Rion Amilcar Scott

#8. Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair?

Leonore Fleischer

#9. While he gazed
The beauty of her flesh abashed the boy,
As though it were the beauty of her soul:
For as the base man, judging of the good,
Puts his own baseness in him by default
Of will and nature, so did Pelleas lend
All the young beauty of his own soul to hers

Alfred Tennyson

#10. Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Jean-Henri Fabre

#11. They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.)

Susan Glaspell

#12. For a few moments, raising his arms desperately, the Reverend Mouret implored Heaven. His shoulder-blades cracked, with such fantastic force did he pray. But soon enough his arms fell to his sides, his hopes abashed. From heaven came one of those silences utterly void of hope known to the devout.

Emile Zola

#13. If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

George Carey

#15. Never humiliate anyone.

Hans Blix

#16. I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Saul Bellow

#17. Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live.

Thomas Middleton

#18. If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.

Wayne Dyer

#19. ...this pattern of casual intrusion whereby women could be leered at, touched, harassed, and abused without a second though, was sexism: implicit, explicit, commonplace, and deep-rooted, pretty much everywhere you'd care to look.

Laura Bates

#20. Conversations about politics can give you the somewhat errant impression that you can make a difference to people's lives by talking about what others should be doing.

Daniela I. Norris

#21. My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

Lady Gaga

#22. I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch ...

David Letterman

#23. History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

David Hume