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  • Blushing is the colour of virtue.

    Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.4304, Harper Collins
  • From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do. I find it funny because I try to be modest and I don't like to talk about gymnastics unless I am asked about it. But my roommates always take on my bragging rights and tell my life story to the guys we meet, which leaves me blushing.

    Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
  • I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  • 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

    People   Wish   Dresses  
  • 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-

  • If you're in the mood for a blushing art house romance, you'll fall for it, too.

    Art   Fall   House  
  • I can’t help blushing and looking down at my feet. “It was nothing.” “It was literally everything to me.” I look up, putting on my best version of Eight’s teasing smile. “In that case, I think I deserve more than a gross hot dog.” Eight clasps his hands across his chest like I’ve wounded him. “You’re right! I’m a fool to think my life could be traded for a hot dog.” He grabs my hand and gets down on one knee, pressing his forehead to the back of my hand. “My savior, what can I ever do to repay you?

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

    William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.630
  • A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

    Mean   Two   Dubious  
    George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com
  • On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath.

    Wedding   White   Dresses  
    "The close-up". Interview with Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2007.
  • Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

    Giving   Ordinary   Way  
    Knut Hamsun (2011). “Mysteries”, p.33, Souvenir Press
  • I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

    Stories   Pages   Way  
  • I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

    White   Wish   Dabs  
  • Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

    Boys   Virtue   Blushing  
  • 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.

    Death   Fall   Farewell  
    'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352
  • The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.

    Sweet   Flower   Pride  
    William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.775
  • So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

    Sweet   Wish   Pity  
    George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”
  • Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

    Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.1519, Simon and Schuster
  • Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

  • You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?

  • So do you remember this place?" "Hard to forget." he snorted. "This is where you tried to kill me. You were so nervous, you kept blushing. Never had someone try to stake me who blushed so much.

  • 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.

    Mistake   Lying   Air  
    Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.55, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

    Heart   Blushing   Cheeks  
  • Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

    Integrity   Animal   Men  
    Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27
  • Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.

  • 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 (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics
  • Clothes were scattered across the floor in piles, a duffel bag open on the floor as if it had exploded. Isabelle's bright silver-gold whip hung from one bedpost, a lacy white bra from another. Simon averted his eyes. The curtains were drawn, the lamps extinguished. Isabelle flopped down on the edge of the bed and looked at him with bitter amusement. "A blushing vampire. Who would have guessed.

    Eye   White   Clothes  
    Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.324, Simon and Schuster
  • Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Self-Sacrifice"
  • Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

    Fire   Religion   Veils  
    'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 649
  • 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

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