(57 quotes found)
“One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.”
Marquis De Sade
“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
“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
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
Diogenes
“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
“When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty”
Gregory I
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air”
Thomas Gray
“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity”
Jean de la Bruyere
“To read my book, the virgin shy - May blush, while Brutus standeth by: But when he's gone, read through what's writ, And never stain a cheek for it”
Marcus Aurelius
“Better a blush in the face than a spot in the heart”
Proverb
