(19 quotes found)
“The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.”
Victor Hugo
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”
Andre Dubus
“Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.”
Chanakya
“He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.”
“I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak.”
Linda Evangelista
“Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.”
Joseph Priestley
“Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.”
Penelope Keith
“Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.”
Jonathan Katz
