* As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.
- Plutarch

 

“Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,
No touch of bashfulness?”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

“In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence”

Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

 

 * Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
- Mary Wollstonecraft

* 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.
- Charles Caleb Colton
 

“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness”

Joseph Addison quotes (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672-1719)

 

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.”
Proverb