TIMIDITY

Related Subjects: Awkwardness, Cowardice, Embarrassment, Fear, Humility, Inferiority, Meekness, Submission

1. I went darkling, and whistling to keep myself from being afraid.—DRYDEN, Amphitryon
   

2. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
   And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
   Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.—ALEXANDER POPE, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
   

3. To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.—SCOTT, Rob Roy
   

4. Who timidly requests invites refusal.—SENECA, Hippolytus
   

5. But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

6. Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

7. The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

8. O, these flaws and starts,
   Impostors to true fear, would well become
   A woman's story at a winter's fire,
   Authorized by her grandam.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

9. Great empires are not maintained by timidity.—TACITUS, History