BLUSHING QUOTES

quotations about blushing

You haven't seen a bald man in his sixties blush? Oh, it happens, just as it does to a hairy, spotty fifteen-year-old. And because it's rarer, it sends the blusher tumbling back to that time when life felt like nothing more than one long sequence of embarrassments.

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending


The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts


Now the red wins upon her cheek;
Now white with crimson closes
In desperate struggle--so to speak,
A War of Roses.

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

On Her Blushing


I would rather see a young man blush than turn pale.

MARCUS CATO

Plutarch's Lives


Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it there is someone not easily forgotten.

DANNIKA DARK

Five Weeks


While, mantling on the maiden's cheek,
Young roses kindled into thought.

THOMAS MOORE

Evenings in Greece


Blushing is the color of virtue.

MATHEW HENRY

Commentaries


If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.

JONATHAN PRICE

Put That in Writing


Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

MARK TWAIN

Following the Equator


Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
To modest cheeks, and borrow'd one from art.

WILLIAM COWPER

Expostulation


Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

PAUL HOFFMAN

The Last Four Things


And bid the cheek be ready with a blush
Modest as morning when she coldly eyes
The youthful Phoebus.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Troilus and Cressida


There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't,
And a blush for having done it.

JOHN KEATS

Sharing Eve's Apple


On her cheek blushes the richness of an autumn sky,
With ever-shifting beauty.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Spirit of Poetry"


Blushing is literally waving a red flag at a bull, a come on, a variation on the fight-or-flee response. Blushers want to hide, yet the blush draws attention to themselves.

MURRAY BILMES

attributed, The Odd Body


Red as a rose is she.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner


Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die.

FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD

A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England


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.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Aurora Leigh


And ever and anon, with rosy red
The bashful blood her snowy cheeks did dye.

EDMUND SPENSER

Faerie Queene


Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face;
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet