Home › B › Blushes
Blushes: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes.— WM. R. ALGER — Oriental Poetry. Love
Sowing and Reaping Roses. 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.— E. B. BROWNING — Aurora Leigh. Bk. II. L. 732.
Blushed like the waves of hell.— BYRON — The Devil's Drive. St. 5.
Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.— BYRON — Stanzas to Her who can Best Understand Them. St. 12. St. 12.
So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!— BYRON — Bride of Abydos. Canto 1. St. 8.
'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.— BYRON — Stanzas for Music.
Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surprise Flash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?— ABRAHAM COLES — Man, the Microcosm.
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.— COWPER — Conversation. L. 347.
Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."— DIOGENES LAERTIUS — Diogenes. VI.
A blush is no language: only a dubious flagsignal which may mean either of two contradictories.— GEORGE ELIOT — Daniel Deronda. Bk. V. Ch. XXXV.
The rising blushes, which her cheek o'erspread, Are opening roses in the lily's bed.— GAY — Dione. Act II. Sc. 3.
Blushing is the colour of virtue.— MATTHEW HENRY — Commentaries.
Jeremiah III. Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.— HOOD — Ruth.
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.— MOORE — Evenings in Greece.
Evening II. Song. From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses. S.— NICHOLAS ROWE — Tamerlane. Act I. Sc. 1.
And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phœbus.— Shakespeare — Troilus and Cressida. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 228.
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.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act IV.
и. Sc. 1. L. 160. Come, quench your blushes and present yourself That which you are, mistress o' the feast.— Shakespeare — The Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 67.
Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine. The Rape of Lucrece. L. 792. I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 9. L. 68.
Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, That banish what they sue for.— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 162.
Two red fires in both their faces blazed; *** She thought he blush'd, And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed. The Rape of Lucrece. Line 1,353. Yet will she blush, here be it said, To hear her secrets so bewrayed. The Passionate Pilgrim. Pt. XIX. L. 351. How pretty Her blushing was, and how she blush'd again.— TENNYSON — The Princess. Pt. III. L. 83.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night VII. L. 496.
Les hommes rougissent moins de leurs crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanité. Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.— LA BRUYÈRE — Les Caractères. II.
L'innocence à rougir n'est point accoutumée. Innocence is not accustomed to blush.— MOLIÈRE — Don Garcie de Navarre.
II. 5. Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta. The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient.— GOLDONI — Pamela. I. 3.