quotations about blushing
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIÈRE
Don Garcia de Navarre
Shy girl, it's written on your face
A mermaid out of water, Feeling out of place
Shy girl, tryna hide a blush
Caught you looking for a second
O-TOWN
"Shy Girl"
And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
Whether I blush or no.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Coriolanus
The striking thing about blushing is its implicitly mixed signals. A blush is a funny mixture of wanting to hide and at the same time wanting to attract someone.
MURRAY BILMES
attributed, The Odd Body
Mr. Phunky, blushing into the very whites of his eyes, tried to look as if he didn't know that everybody was gazing at him: a thing which no man ever succeeded in doing yet, or, in all probability, ever will.
CHARLES DICKENS
Pickwick Papers
Such was the colour--when her cheek
Spoke what the lip might never speak.
The crimson flush which could confess
All that we hoped--but dared not guess.
That blush which through the world is known
To love, and to the rose alone--
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt or ill-breeding.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
The Way of the World
What, canst thou say all this and never blush?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Titus Andronicus
By noting of the lady, I have mark'd
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness beat away those blushes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Much Ado About Nothing
The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread,
Are opening roses in the lily's bed.
JOHN GAY
Dione
Blushing is physiological evidence of both our self-consciousness and our sociability--a manifestation of not only our awareness of ourselves but our sensitivity to how others perceive us.
SCOTT STOSSEL
My Age of Anxiety
Blushing is actually an instinctive way to get back into the good graces of others. It is an attempt to avoid being ostracized from a group for breaching unwritten rules of society.
STEPHEN JUAN
The Odd Body
He blushes: all is well.
TERENCE
Adelphi
Miss Clerricot blushes most charmingly and raises a hand to cover a portion of her countenance. It is a shame, this ill-feeling that exists between Miss Clerricot and her face.
WILLIAM TREVOR
The Boarding-House
So sweet the blush of bashfulness,
E'en pity scarce can wish it less!
LORD BYRON
The Bride of Abydos
"Nay, nay," quod she, and waxed as red as rose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Troilus and Criseyde
Better a blush on the cheek than a spot in the heart.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo stand off sighs
She's got Bette Davis eyes
KIM CARRNES
"Bette Davis Eyes"
Blushing is like holding a flag over your head that says, "Look at me, I am really uncomfortable here!"
MARG MEIKLE
How Much Does Your Head Weigh?