You have sent me a Flanders mare.
— Henry VIII of England
Colossal Bashfulness quotations
Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way.
They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards.
If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.
Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.
All men are timid on entering any fight.
Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.
Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.
I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself.
Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.
I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.
Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.
A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.
A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn’t be more fortunate to call my family — from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said he’s like a Gary Cooper. He’s bashful, he’s shy, he’s sensitive, he’s a great actor, he’s beautiful, he’s delicious.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.
A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
My goal is to be one of the biggest bands in the world, and I have never been bashful about saying that.
There are no ugly women, only lazy.
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God.
Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.
I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.
Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy.
They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on.
I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.