shy quotes

   I amterribly shy, but ofcourse no one believesme.Come to think of it, neither would I.

- Carol Elaine Channing
Attributed.

   Hobbits are an unobtrusive but veryancient people, more numerous formerly than theyare today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well- ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt† Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.

-J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
  The Fellowship of the Ring, prologue.