Blush Quotes
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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".
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.
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.
'May the divil choke ye!'says he, pleasant enough, but I knew by the blush he had he was vexed.
Martin Ross— 1898 Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.,'Lisheen Races, Second- Hand'.
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
Philip Massinger— 1626 Of the theatre. The Roman Actor, act1, sc.1.
'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))
"Shells with lip, or tooth, or bleeding gum,Tell-tale shells, and shells that whisper 'Come',Shells that stammer, blush, and yet are dumb – ""O let me hear!"
thomas sturge moore— "A Duet", line 5; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 78.
I only believe in those who can still blush.
nelson rodrigues— Asfalto Selvagem: Engraçadinha, seus amores e seus pecados: novel - Page 176, by Nelson Rodrigues, Ruy Castro - Published by Companhia das Letras, 1994 ISBN 8571643717, 9788571643710 - 555 páginas
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))
She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
walter scott— Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 5).
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))
'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.
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Ruth.
From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses.
nicholas rowe— Nicholas Rowe, Tamerlane, Act I, scene 1.
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.
Before green apples blush, before green nuts embrown, why, one day in the country is worth a month in town.
christina rossetti— Summer. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
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.
I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book VIII, Epigram 18; in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 411-12.
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
