quotations about blushing
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
LA BRUYÈRE
Les Caractères
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
Whoso blushes is guilty already; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Émile
Her cheeks glowed with pink charcoals.
RAY BRADBURY
From the Dust Returned
Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.
KERRY GREENWOOD
Cocaine Blues
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
We never forgive those who make us blush.
JEAN-FRANCOIS DE LA HARPE
Melanie
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"
Blushing maketh truth evident.
DEMETRIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
MME. NECKER
attributed, Edge-tools of Speech
Oh, sweet blush of orchid
Body and soul
Oh baby, I'm still your witness
SMASHING PUMPKINS
"Marchin' On"
Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
That banish what they sue for.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Measure for Measure
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
CHARLES DARWIN
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient.
CARLO GOLDONI
Pamela
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIÈRE
Don Garcia de Navarre
A virtue but at second-hand;
They blush because they understand.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Cadenus and Vanessa
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
The modest fan was lifted up no more,
And virgins smil'd at what they blush'd before.
ALEXANDER POPE
Essay on Criticism
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
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