Women do not fancy timid men. [ Mme. Deluzy ]
As well the noble savage of the field
Might tamely couple with the fearful ewe;
Tigers might engender with the timid deer;
Wild, muddy boars defile the cleanly ermine,
Or vultures sort with doves; as I with thee. [ Lee ]
Brave as lions in peace, timid as deer in war.
As timid violets lade the ambient air
With their heart's richest fragrance, unaware
The fragrance whispers that the flower is there. [ Anna Katharine Green ]
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. [ Massillon ]
The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Those who appear cold, but are only timid, as soon as they dare to love, adore. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived. [ Mme. Roland ]
At a ball, men are the timid sex, and also the feebler sex; for they are always the first to be fatigued. [ A. Karr ]
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. [ Richter ]
As a man's yes and no, so his character. A prompt yes or no marks the firm, the quick, the decided character; and a slow, the cautious or timid. [ Lavater ]
We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it. [ Hazlitt ]
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid - too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. [ George Eliot ]