Timid

Famous quotes containing the word timid:

“[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste—or is but half taste.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“This night has been so strange that it seemed
As if the hair stood up on my head.
From going-down of the sun I have dreamed
That women laughing, or timid or wild,
In rustle of lace or silken stuff,
Climbed up my creaking stair.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)