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)

    “Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitions ... he has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover’s sense of the moment of crisis, and he knew ... how costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)