Blush Quotes & Sayings
These blush quotes and blush sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.A wise man needs not blush for changing his purpose. - George Herbert
I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? 'You said nothing,' you tell me; 'and this cause was lost through you.' You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you. - Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis]
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy. - William Shakespeare
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
'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
Only for a moment; but it was enough. It was a sudden revelation, a tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion, and rushed to the farthest verge and there quivered and felt the world come closer, swollen with some astonishing significance, some pressure of rapture, which split its thin skin and gushed and poured with an extraordinary alleviation over the cracks and sores! Then, for the moment, she had seen an illumination; a match burning in a crocus; an inner meaning almost expressed. But the close withdrew; the hard softened. It was over-the moment. - Virginia Woolf
Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh. - Helen Rowland
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. (Les Caractères) - Jean De La Bruyere