Blushing Quotes - Page 2

• I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Self

  William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237

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• Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fall, Farewell

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Diaries, Records

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.45, 谷月社

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• Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost of pedantic - veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mistake, Lying, Air

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.55, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mistake, Lying, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.55, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.

  Eva Green

  Teacher, Weekend, Should Have

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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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• 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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• Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

  Lord Byron

  Wells, Pure

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• Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, May, Fool

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.836

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• Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Past, Gone

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.351, Delphi Classics

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• The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

  Edward Young

  Men, Literature, He Man

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.183

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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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• 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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• Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-

  Laini Taylor

  Heart, Butterfly, Drawing

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• The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Frost, November

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Greatness, Long

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. “Thank you for coming to Amsterdam,” he said. “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said. “Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa

  John Green

  People, Wish, Dresses

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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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• 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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• Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

  Jane Austen

  Age, Emotion

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.180, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I hoped I wasn't blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to my battles.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Battle, Enough

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Christian, Quitting, Virgins

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• Trust me when you read the script for Bad Santa 2 I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I read the script first, and I was laughing out loud and blushing and couldn't believe what I was reading.

  Christina Hendricks

  Believe, Reading, Laughing

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, God, Country

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1850). “Royalty and Republicanism in Italy: Or, Notes and Documents Relating to the Lombard Insurrection, and to the Royal War of 1848”, p.118, London, C. Gilpin

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