Assuming someone's stupid because they're shy and therefore a bit slower to respond is like deeming a cake binnable because the box is dented.

Deep rivers run quiet.

You will meet people in life who will just dislike you for no reason, not because there is anything wrong with you but because everything is going right for you. Until they master their own peace, they will always try to destroy yours.

Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.