quotations about blushing
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
LA BRUYÈRE
Les Caractères
Whoso blushes is guilty already; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Émile
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain.
Of fancied scorn and undeserv'd disdain,
And bear the marks, upon a blushing face
Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
WILLIAM COWPER
Conversation
We never forgive those who make us blush.
JEAN-FRANCOIS DE LA HARPE
Melanie
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
attributed, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, 1863
Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.
KERRY GREENWOOD
Cocaine Blues
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
MME. NECKER
attributed, Edge-tools of Speech
Shy girl, it's written on your face
A mermaid out of water, Feeling out of place
Shy girl, tryna hide a blush
Caught you looking for a second
O-TOWN
"Shy Girl"
The best thing you can do to put an end to problem blushing is to stop resisting your blushing, as the more you fight blushing the more you are going to blush.
MABEL DAWN VAN NIEKERK
The Blushing Phobia
The striking thing about blushing is its implicitly mixed signals. A blush is a funny mixture of wanting to hide and at the same time wanting to attract someone.
MURRAY BILMES
attributed, The Odd Body
Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
That banish what they sue for.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Measure for Measure
Blushing maketh truth evident.
DEMETRIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Her cheeks glowed with pink charcoals.
RAY BRADBURY
From the Dust Returned
Such was the colour--when her cheek
Spoke what the lip might never speak.
The crimson flush which could confess
All that we hoped--but dared not guess.
That blush which through the world is known
To love, and to the rose alone--
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834
Mr. Phunky, blushing into the very whites of his eyes, tried to look as if he didn't know that everybody was gazing at him: a thing which no man ever succeeded in doing yet, or, in all probability, ever will.
CHARLES DICKENS
Pickwick Papers
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt or ill-breeding.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
The Way of the World
We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
A Discourse by Way of Vision Concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIÈRE
Don Garcia de Navarre
The striking thing about blushing is its implicitly mixed signals. A blush is a funny mixture of wanting to hide and at the same time wanting to attract someone.
MURRAY BILMES
attributed, The Odd Body
What, canst thou say all this and never blush?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Titus Andronicus