Bashfulness Quotes

#1. We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

Joseph Addison

#2. Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

Margaret Of Valois

#3. I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Brett Favre

#4. As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

Plutarch

#5. So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

Lord Byron

#6. He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

Torquato Tasso

#7. The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

Robert Breault

#8. There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.

Henry MacKenzie

#9. In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Samuel Johnson

#10. In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.

Noam Chomsky

#11. I think it's important to not always wear pants and not always wear dresses. You should and mix that up.

Emma Roberts

#12. Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

Alfred Austin

#13. Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#15. A certain shame or bashfulness attached itself to whatever one deeply and privately enjoyed.

C.S. Lewis

#16. Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

Margaret Cavendish

#17. Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#18. My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Waris Ahluwalia

#19. I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

James Joyce

#20. When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

George McGovern

#21. Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Joseph Addison

#22. I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

Mac Davis

#23. Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle.