Timid

Famous quotes containing the word timid:

“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

“Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institutions,—such call I good books.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“These are God’s own horses, poor, timid creatures, that will run fast enough as soon as they smell you, though they are nine feet high.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)