Shy Younger Men

Famous quotes containing the words shy, younger and/or men:

    “The banners flashing through the trees
    Make their blood dance and chain their eyes;
    That bugle-music on the breeze
    Arrests them with a charm’d surprise.
    Banner by turns and bugle woo:
    Ye shy recluses, follow too!”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “When you gonna get married, Marty? You should be ashamed of yourself. All your brothers and sisters, younger than you, they get married and got the children. I meet your mother in the produce store. She say to me “Eh, you know a nice girl for my boy Marty?” What’s the matter with you? That’s no way!”
    —Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

    “What is this world? what asketh men to have?
    Now with his love, now in his colde grave
    Allone, withouten any compaignye.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)