Bashful é um curta-metragem de comédia silenciosa americano de um rolo de 1917 estrelado por Harold Lloyd. Uma cópia existe no arquivo de filmes do Museum of Modern Art, Nova York. O filme pode ser assistido gratuitamente no YouTube.
“Narrated 'Aisha: I said, "O Allah's Apostle! A virgin feels shy." He said, "Her consent is (expressed by) her silence."”
“He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave every indication of an open, affectionate heart.”
“At the time, I believed that shyness was very important, but now I know that shyness is one of the evils one must try to overcome, that in reality to be shy doesn't matter—it is like so many other things to which one gives an exaggerated importance.”
“He's not an asshole, he's just shy. I think you have shy/asshole confusion, my friend.”
“The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.”
“Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
