Quotes on Bashfulness

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

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

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

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

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.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.