Shy Younger Men

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

    Shy and proud men ... are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
    Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886)

    As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the “breadwinner ethic.”
    Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)