“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
“One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.”
Marquis De Sade
“When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty”
Gregory I
“My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.”
Henry Constable
“Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.”
Mark Twain
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
Diogenes
“If she be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known, For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, And fears by pale white shown: Then if she fear or be to blame, By this you shall not know, For still her cheeks possess the same, Which native s”
William Shakespeare
