Blush Quotes
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A simple "Hi" has potential to make you blush, if received from your crush.
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More Blush Quotes
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
— Horace, Of the Art of Poetry, line 272. Wentworth Dillon's translation.
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,Why do ye fall so fast?Your date is not so pastBut you may stay yet here awhileTo blush and gently smile,And go at last.
Robert Herrick— "To Blossoms".
Rome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.
henryk sienkiewicz— Letter of Petronius to Nero, Ch. 73
Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the Great ; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state? Yes one the first the last the best The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate , Bequeath'd the name of Washington , To make man blush there was but one!
lord byron— Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, st. 29 (1814)
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
thomas gray— St. 14. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
— Samuel Johnson, p. 242. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751).
Full manya gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full manya flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
thomas gray— 1751Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.52-6.
But ’neath yon crimson treeLover to listening maid might breathe his flame,Nor mark, within its roseate canopy,Her blush of maiden shame.
william cullen bryant— Autumn Woods. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
But sad as angels for the good man's sin,Weep to record, and blush to give it in.
thomas campbell— Part II, line 357.
'Tis Summer Time on Bredon,And now the farmers swear:The cattle rise and listenIn valleys far and near,And blush at what they hear.But when the mists in autumnOn Bredon top are thick,And happy hymns of farmersGo up from fold and rick,The cattle then are sick.
hugh kingsmill— "Two Poems, After A. E. Housman", no. 2, line 1
When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.
dwight l. moody— P. 3. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
She picks up the baby and contemplates the Bonsai-bush, and, as we watch, in the growing half-dark, the Bonsai-bush flowers. On the black-and-white film, the thousands of flower-petals blush a deep red.
Peter Greenaway— Conclusion of the published script.
Civil limitation daunts His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he.
George Meredith— An Orson of the Muse (1883).
I only saw her as she pass'd A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes Lay all the loves of Paradise. . . . You shall not know her she who sat Unconscious in my heart all time I dream'd and wove this wayward rhyme, And loved and did not blush thereat.
joaquin miller— IV, p. 25. (The Ship in the Desert (1875))
And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phœbus.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act I, scene 3, line 228.
So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!
lord byron— Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto 1, Stanza 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.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Stanzas for Music.
Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Stanzas to Her who can Best Understand Them, Stanza 12.
A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.
george eliot— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book V, Chapter XXXV.
O shame! Where is thy blush?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 4, line 82.
Now, if you can blush and cry, "guilty," cardinal, You'll show a little honesty.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act III, scene 2, line 306.
And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find A wife I need not blush to show I've little further now to go.
william barnes— William Barnes, Not Far to Go.
Should this fair rose offend thy sight, Placed in thy bosom bare, 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there.
— James Somerville, The White Rose. Other versions of traditional origin.
There bloomed the strawberry of the wilderness; The trembling eyebright showed her sapphire blue, The thyme her purple, like the blush of Even; And if the breath of some to no caress Invited, forth they peeped so fair to view, All kinds alike seemed favourites of Heaven.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, The River Duddon, Flowers, VI.
The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, Though blent with rosier hue, As beautiful as woman's blush, As evanescent too.
letitia elizabeth landon— Apple Blossoms
Like my daddy said right before he killed my mom, "If ya want somethin' done right, ya gotta do it yourself". He also said... [Blade: Do you blush?]
— Who: Reinhardt
— Source: Blade 2
— Note: Said before trying to kill Blade with his own sword. Blade then blocks him and takes his sword back before cutting him in half.
But sad as angels for the good man's sin, weep to record, and blush to give it in.
thomas campbell— Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, Part II, line 357
