Bashfulness is boyish. [ Proverb ]
Awkwardness in full dress. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
Modesty is not bashfulness. [ Proverb ]
The scarlet hue of modesty. [ Latena ]
Twin sister of awkwardness. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]
So sweet the blush of bashfulness
Even pity scarce can wish it less. [ Byron ]
A scoff is the reward of bashfulness. [ Proverb ]
A shy face is better than a forward heart. [ Cervantes ]
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. [ Addison ]
Love requires boldness and scorns bashfulness. [ Proverb ]
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. [ Sydney Smith ]
Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love. [ Hazlitt ]
Though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice. [ Proverb ]
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. [ Aristotle ]
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Conceit not so high a notion of any as to be bashful and impotent in their presence. [ Fuller ]
A tardiness in Nature, which often leaves the history unspoke, that it intends to do. [ William Shakespeare ]
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. [ Mary Wollstonecraft ]
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. [ Dr. Johnson ]
She felt his flame; but deep within her breast, in bashful coyness or in maiden pride, the soft return concealed. [ Thomson ]
We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in the generous sensitiveness to shame. [ Plutarch ]
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. [ Shenstone ]
Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; it is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort. [ Bacon ]
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are continguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity. [ Plutarch ]
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. [ Colton ]
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. [ Mackenzie ]
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. [ Alcott ]