quotations about blushing
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
LA BRUYÈRE
Les Caractères
We never forgive those who make us blush.
JEAN-FRANCOIS DE LA HARPE
Melanie
Her cheeks glowed with pink charcoals.
RAY BRADBURY
From the Dust Returned
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
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"
Whoso blushes is guilty already; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Émile
Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.
KERRY GREENWOOD
Cocaine Blues
Blushing maketh truth evident.
DEMETRIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
That banish what they sue for.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Measure for Measure
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
Oh, sweet blush of orchid
Body and soul
Oh baby, I'm still your witness
SMASHING PUMPKINS
"Marchin' On"
A virtue but at second-hand;
They blush because they understand.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Cadenus and Vanessa
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
MME. NECKER
attributed, Edge-tools of Speech
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 blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient.
CARLO GOLDONI
Pamela
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIÈRE
Don Garcia de Navarre
And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
Whether I blush or no.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Coriolanus
Her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,
That one might almost say, her body thought.
JOHN DONNE
Of the Progress of the Soul
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