Blushing Quotes

• On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Cheeks

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• Blushing is the color of virtue.

  Diogenes

  Love, Life, Dream

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• I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Stupid, Way, Nonsensical

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.234, Random House

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• The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

  Carlo Goldoni

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Convenient

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• Blushing is the colour of virtue.

  Matthew Henry

  Virtue, Colour

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.4304, Harper Collins

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• Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Expression, Peculiar

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.

  Haruki Murakami

  Doe, Faces, Steps

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• A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

  George Eliot

  Mean, Two, Dubious

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

  John Keats

  Done, Embarrassment

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics

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• 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 C. Bryant

  Flower, Air, Rose

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• Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Boys, Virtue, Complexion

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• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Animal, Men

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Vanity, Weakness

  "Les Caractères, II". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1688.

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• 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

  Girl, Sorry, Fire

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.957, Delphi Classics

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• A letter does not blush.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Doe, Letters

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “The Letters of Cicero: B.C. 51-49”, p.23, Charles River Editors

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• So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Wish, Pity

  George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

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• When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Powerful, Weapons, Charm

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• Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Self

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Self-Sacrifice"

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• We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live

  Peter McWilliams

  Suicide, Exercise, Animal

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• People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

  Saadi

  Confidence, Loving Yourself, Sight

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• I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

  Katie Holmes

  Kissing, Parent, Embarrassing

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• Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Red, Corn, Poppies

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.148

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• If I profane with my unworthiest hand
  This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
  My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Two

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

  Alexander Pope

  Fire, Religion, Veils

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 649

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• For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

  Helen Rowland

  Kissing, Men, Average

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