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  • I don't mean to be bashful, but I was

    Mean   Bashful  
  • 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 (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.309
  • I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States...

    "Daytona 500: Racing superstar Danica Patrick commits career to America’s NASCAR". Interview with Rachel Ray, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2012.
  • Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

    Children   Food   Missing  
  • The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.

    Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.1257, Delphi Classics
  • Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

    'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 3, sc. 3
  • Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

  • When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

    Wine   Water   Red  
  • When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

    "The Line Man: Michael Strahan". Interview with Miceky Rapkin, www.elle.com. December 18, 2012.
  • I've always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I'm too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can't a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it's a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.

    Men   Games   Waiting  
  • All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

    Military   Fighting   Men  
  • The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

    Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.203, Transaction Publishers
  • She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

    School   Dwarves   Giving  
    Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
  • Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.

    Pain   Simple   Fire  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.81
  • A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn’t be more fortunate to call my family — from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said he’s like a Gary Cooper. He’s bashful, he’s shy, he’s sensitive, he’s a great actor, he’s beautiful, he’s delicious.

    Beautiful   People   Shy  
  • You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.

  • Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.

    Summer   Boys   Flames  
    John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”
  • Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin
  • My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.

    Goal   Band   World  
  • The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

    Love   Life   Looks  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick”, p.42
  • How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.

  • Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!

    Fashion   Plato   Passion  
    'Patience' (1881) act 1
  • I can't imagine Revolution being quiet, unassuming, or bashful

  • Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

    C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.145, Simon and Schuster
  • The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

  • I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.

    Flower   Purple   Rose  
    Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”
  • I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

    Dream   Sleep   Soul  
    Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.182, Simon and Schuster
  • I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

    Pain   Men   Self  
    William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237
  • The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

    Purses   Empty   Beggar  
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