Shy Quotes

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! (Ingrid Bergman)
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. View quote
William Wordsworth
Shy and proud men ... are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. View quote
Henry Taylor
I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back. View quote
Jason Statham
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day. View quote
Brad Meltzer
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. View quote
François Hollande
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. View quote
Henry Taylor
I want to resume the life of a shy person. View quote
Garrison Keillor
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. View quote
John Banville
I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. (Jim Carrey)
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. View quote
Caroline Knapp
The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know. View quote
Garry Shandling
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation. View quote
Bill Wyman
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty. View quote
Ethel Waters
Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting. View quote
Stephen Collins
I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous. View quote
Yvonne Craig
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. (Helena Bonham Carter)
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I'm a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people. View quote
Christian Slater
Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it. View quote
Marisa Miller