Best Bashful Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

“Illuminated by the dim, unreliable streetlights, Mahiru's smile looked brighter than the bulbs themselves, and Amane averted his eyes to avoid being dazzled.”

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Book:The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 4

Source: The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 4

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

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

“Amane tried to tear his eyes away and bring his soaring heart back down to earth, but in the end, he kept staring at her until she noticed and hid her face in a cushion.”

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Book:The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 2

Source: The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 2

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

“The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.”

Cases Style African American Moody Delta Bashful

Author:Tim Cahill

“I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.”

Men Feels Self Pain Faces Bears Mark Shame Pity Scorn Disgrace Disdain Blushing Bashful

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.”

Christ Water Cry Divine Cold Red Wine Streams Warmth Tides Cold Water Pow Bashful

Author:Aaron Hill

“Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.”

Desire Secret Boys Blood Youth Summer Conscious Drunk Flames Generous Breasts Shy Warmth Invites Betray Fifteen Virgins Maids Rapture Fetters Bashful

Author:John Armstrong

“Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.”

Principles Ignorance Vices Arise Modest Deceived Demeanor Bashful Bashfulness

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.”

Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author

“You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.”

Feelings Bashful

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.”

I Can Can Do Cameras Bashful

Author:Michael Strahan

“Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.”

Women Modest Bashful

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“I've always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I'm too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can't a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it's a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.”

Ifs Men World Way Want Should Shows Games Waiting Interest Signals Pursued Creeps Women Want Mating No Sympathy Bashful

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!”

Young Passion Fashion Criticism Attachment Vegetables Sentimental Plato Potatoes Beans Spleen Bashful

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“I can't imagine Revolution being quiet, unassuming, or bashful”

I Can Imagine Revolution Quiet Unassuming Bashful Being Quiet

Author:Immortal Technique

“The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone. Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder.”

Needs Littles Different Helping Use Forget Too Much Arms Drug Connections Seven Legs Speed Grass Freak Ladders Paranoid Coke Sleepy Dwarfs Grumpy Bashful

Author:George Carlin

“The bashful beggar has an empty purse.”

Empty Beggar Purses Bashful

Author:William Cranch Bond

“A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.”

Eye Gentle Gentleman His Eyes Absent Merciful Bashful

Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“I don't plan on being bashful.”

Plans Bashful

Author:Rand Paul

“In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.”

Needs Feels Soul Ends Dream Asks Speak Sleep Periods Sentences Recognizing Rapids Finishing Bumps Personal Change Bashful

Book:Shampoo Planet

Source: Shampoo Planet

“Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.”

Ifs Together Used Lovers Late Too Late Vocabulary Bashful

Author:Milan Kundera

“How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.”

Doe Said Two Book Faces Fighting Speak Share Particular Expression Broke Divides Crow Speak The Truth Kenya Predicaments Bashful

Author:Barack Obama

“Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater”

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Book:Fade

Source: Fade

“She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.”

Giving School Late Hated Dwarfs Dwarves Stupidest Bashful Janie

Book:Fade

Source: Fade

“Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.”

Knows Looks Would Be Know How Ashamed Comrade Bashful

Book:That Hideous Strength

Source: That Hideous Strength

“So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,” I said. “It’s a dress I bought for my fifteenth birthday party. But I don’t wear it on dates.” His eyes lit up. “We’re on a date?” he asked. I looked down, feeling bashful. “Don’t push it.”

Said Feelings Eye Party Dresses Yeah Suits His Eyes Lit Birthday Party Bashful

Author:John Green

“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.”

Love Life Looks Love Life Virgins Bashful

Book:The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick

Source: The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick

“All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.”

Looks Relationship Virgins Glances Bashful

Book:Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems

Source: Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems

“The bashful are always aggressive at heart.”

Heart Aggressive Shyness Bashful

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn’t be more fortunate to call my family — from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said he’s like a Gary Cooper. He’s bashful, he’s shy, he’s sensitive, he’s a great actor, he’s beautiful, he’s delicious.”

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Author:Ellen Greene

“My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.”

World Goal Band Bashful

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.”

Children Persons Lost My Own Common Silence Adults Explanation Shyness Inhibitions Bashful

Author:Jean Arthur

“I don't mean to be bashful, but I was”

Mean Bashful

Author:Willie Mays

“Miss Child is never bashful with butter.”

Children Missing Food Cooking Culinary Disrespectful Bashful

Author:Phil Donahue

“I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.”

Knows Shows Flower Red Fairs Dresses Rose Cheeks Royal Violet Purple Hearted Maids Pansies Bashful

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.”

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Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.”

Said Might Literature Understanding My Own Honest Duty Court Wit Reputation Dull Fearful Loyal Bashful

Book:Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions

Source: Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions

“I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States...”

States Dream Wanted England Compromise Formulas Realised Formula One Bashful

Author:Danica Patrick

“Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.”

Want Pleasure Innocence Enjoyment Bashful

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche