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)

“Poor is the triumph o’er the timid hare!
Scared from the corn, and now to some lone seat
Retired—”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)

“We aspire to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to read history and our Bibles, but desecrating every house and every day we breathe in.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)