BLUSHING QUOTES II

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