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)

    A woman’s always younger than a man
    At equal years.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.
    Graham Greene (1904–1991)