Bashfulness is boyish. [ Proverb ]

Awkwardness in full dress. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Modesty is not bashfulness. [ Proverb ]

The scarlet hue of modesty. [ Latena ]

Twin sister of awkwardness. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]

So sweet the blush of bashfulness
Even pity scarce can wish it less. [ Byron ]

A scoff is the reward of bashfulness. [ Proverb ]

A shy face is better than a forward heart. [ Cervantes ]

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. [ Addison ]

Love requires boldness and scorns bashfulness. [ Proverb ]

The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. [ Sydney Smith ]

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love. [ Hazlitt ]

Though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice. [ Proverb ]

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. [ Aristotle ]

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Conceit not so high a notion of any as to be bashful and impotent in their presence. [ Fuller ]

A tardiness in Nature, which often leaves the history unspoke, that it intends to do. [ William Shakespeare ]

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

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. [ Dr. Johnson ]

She felt his flame; but deep within her breast, in bashful coyness or in maiden pride, the soft return concealed. [ Thomson ]

We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in the generous sensitiveness to shame. [ Plutarch ]

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. [ Shenstone ]

Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; it is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort. [ Bacon ]

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

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. [ Colton ]

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove. [ Mackenzie ]

Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. [ Alcott ]