Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.

Some adults are so self-conscious that they are unable to look, for longer than two seconds, a child or even an animal in the eye.

Shyness is cute in children, but disgusting in adults.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.

Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

It is doubly unfortunate to be ignorant or stupid … and confident.