Quotes About Timid

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

I am very shy with people I don't know. I'm positively awkward.

There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)

Dawn wore a pink dress and crept across the land like a timid girl. Her sister Morning followed, dressed in blue, the sun a dazzling locket on her breast.

On the spur of the moment she decided to go and view the blossoms by herself in the dark night. It was a strange decision for a timid and unadventurous young woman, but then she was in a strange state of mind and she dreaded the return home. That evening all sorts of unsettling fancies had burst open in her mind. ("Swaddling Clothes")

Maybe not worthless," he says, "but he has an inferiority complex. You American-born Chinese so timid and brainwashed, will do anything for a woman who'll give you a good lay.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Aw, he's shy. How loveable, huggable, stuff-in-a-bag-and-take-home-able.

I'm not a brazen extrovert, but I'm not as blushing or demure as people might think.

I always thought I was a fairly meek individual.

When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir--' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept

Sauvage, sad, silent, as timid as the sylvan doe, in her own family she seemed a strangeling.

Imagination has been the companion of my whole existence lively, swift, restless, at times timid and balky, most often ready to devour plain upon plain in its course.

I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.

I'm a fearful person. I'm afraid of everything.

We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

I'm terribly, horribly shy.

She had been impulsive all her life, made decisions without thought for the future, and regretted none of them, however dotty. Looking back, all she regretted were the opportunities missed, either because they had come along at the wrong time or because she had been too timid to grasp them.

It was the perfect time and place for an inherently timid person like him to express his inner pervert by peeing in public.

Nunca se sabe qué desesperadas ideas pueden ocurrírsele a un hombre desesperado; en ocasiones, hasta los más tímidos y previsores se atreven, en tal estado, a los más audaces actos.