Blushing Quotes

• Blushing is the color of virtue.

  Diogenes

  Love, Life, Dream

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Cheeks

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• It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.

  John Updike

  Spring, Flower, Farewell

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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 approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Twilight, Autumn

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.62

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

  Carlo Goldoni

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Convenient

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

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Powerful, Weapons, Charm

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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 blushing beauties of a modest maid.

  John Dryden

  Maids, Modest, Girlhood

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.191

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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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• 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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• I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces, Perceive, Fairs

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.630

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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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• 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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• The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Kissing, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. New complete ed., with illustr, by J. Gilbert”, p.15

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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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• 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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• Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting - more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Eye, Pouting

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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