“One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.”
Marquis De Sade
“Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.”
Mark Twain
“My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.”
Henry Constable
“When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty”
Gregory I
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
Diogenes
“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows. . . .”
William Cullen Bryant
