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Quotes About Coy

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.
~ Diablo Cody
I'm like a coy and go into my shell when I face girls.
~ Yuzvendra Chahal
O Woman! in our hours of ease,Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as the shadeBy the light quivering aspen made;When pain and anguish wring the brow,A ministering angel thou!
~ Walter Scott
There is bound to be variation in the population of males in their predisposition to be faithful husbands. If females could recognize such qualities in advance, they could benefit themselves by choosing males possessing them. One way for a female to do this is to play hard to get for a long time, to be coy. Any male who is not patient enough to wait until the female eventually consents to copulate is not likely to be a good bet as a faithful husband.
~ Richard Dawkins
Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.
~ Paul Ryan
I watched that film the other night and it embarrassed me. So dated, so coy, so evasively homosexual only a fellow homosexual might recognize the subtext.
~ David Leavitt
I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.
~ Colin Hanks
Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?" she asked looking at him with a coy smile. "Did we come for bait?
~ Dennis Sharpe, Wednesday
Couldn't get on the train, huh?' Among other things, Soledad has a gift for changing the subject at exactly the right moment. She's more tentative than her sister, but it's hard to remain standoffish with Luca there, all eyelashes and coy dimples
~ Jeanine Cummins
flirtatious tone comes out
~ Jeanine Cummins
I like you when you're algebraic," said Ulf—and immediately regretted it. It was a flirtatious remark—describing somebody as algebraic was undoubtedly to cross a line. You would not normally describe an ordinary friend as algebraic, and then say that you liked her that way. He saw the effect on Anna, and his regret deepened. "Algebraic?" she said, half coyly. "Well, I'm very happy to enter into any equation.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.
~ Henry Fuseli
I am a terrible flirt!
~ Sonja Morgan
Bangkok is one of the world's great cities, all of which own red-light districts that find their ways into the pages of novels from time to time. The sex industry in Thailand is smaller per capita because the Thais are less coy about it than many other people. Most visitors to the kingdom enjoy wonderful vacations without coming across any evidence of sleaze at all
~ John Burdett
In those early years as a believer I had no idea Christians could be coy about their faith. No one had told me I was meant to feel awkward about spreading the good news. That was something I learnt only after mixing with Christians for a while. But I learnt it soon enough.
~ John Dickson
I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
~ Jim Walton
I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.
~ Danny Aiello
Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse.
~ John Milton
Truth is no prostitute, that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty that he who sacrifices everything to her cannot even then be sure of her favour.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
SPIDER-MAN Does she have soft white hair And a coy smile ROCKET Stop this is just sad
~ Shannon Hale
I'm actually shy in person.
~ Dylan Sprouse
Normally, I'm so shy.
~ Jessica Simpson
I am such a shy guy.
~ Barun Sobti
Honestly, I am a shy person.
~ Blake Lively