Quotes and Sayings about Blush
"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Men, Blush, Vanity)
"A letter does not blush."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Blush)
"My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame."
- Henry Constable
(Related: Blush, Lady, Roses, Shame)
"New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush."
- Andrew Cuomo
(Related: Government, Time, Boss, Performance, Blush, Corruption, Disgrace, Now, State, Taxes)
"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Blush, Man, Old, Pride, State, Ugly)
"Blushing is the color of virtue."
- Diogenes
(Related: Virtue)
"A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes."
- Zac Efron
(Related: Blush, Jokes)
"I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: Blush, First, Tax, Income, Vote)
"The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient."
- Carlo Goldoni
(Related: Blush)
"It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."
- George Herbert
(Related: Blush, Poor, Spirit)
"I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Kissing, Parents)
"The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens."
- David Krumholtz
(Related: Truth, America, Blush, Daughters, Hair, Now, Play, Talk, Want, Weight, Woman)
"At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them."
- William Kunstler
(Related: People, Dream, Blush, First)
"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."
- Jacqueline McKenzie
(Related: Audiences, Blush)
"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
(Related: Life, Ability, End, Suicide)
"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter."
- Vladimir Nabokov
(Related: Blush, First, Style)
"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
- Zebulon Pike
(Related: Society, Blush)
"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Actions, Blush, Motives, World)
"On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game."
- Richard Roeper
(Related: Blush, First)
"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Blushes, Innocence, Nothing)
"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."
- Marquis de Sade
(Related: Blush, Old, Shame)
"People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet."
- Sa'Di
(Related: People, Feet, Sight, Ugly)
"Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"
- George Sand
(Related: Heart, Blush, Joy, Reason, Regret, Shame, Struggle, Suffering)
"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Sacrifice, People, Self)
"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
- Jonathan Swift
(Related: Fool, Man, May, Modesty, Sense, Will, Woman)
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Blush, Defiance, Shame, Woman)
"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Blush, First, Indifference, Sin)
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to."
- Mark Twain
(Related: Blushes, Man, Needs)
"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
- Edward Young
(Related: Blushes, Man)