Letters blush not. [ Proverb ]
Blush like a black dog. [ Proverb ]
A letter does not blush. [ Cicero ]
A document does not blush. [ Proverb ]
Truth makes the devil blush. [ Proverb ]
Such a blush
In the midst of brown was born
Like red poppies grown with corn. [ Hood ]
So sweet the blush of bashfulness
Even pity scarce can wish it less. [ Byron ]
She listen'd with a flitting blush.
With downcast eyes, and modest grace,
For well she knew I could not choose
But gaze upon her face. [ Coleridge ]
Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [ Moliere ]
- the blush is formed - and flies -
Nor owns reflection's calm control;
It comes, it deepens - fades and dies,
A gush of feeling from the soul. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]
The softest blush that nature spreads
Gave color to her cheek:
Such orient color smiles through heaven
When vernal mornings break. [ Mallet ]
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. [ Gray ]
Men blush to be cured by a shameful remedy. [ Proverb ]
From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks.
Ten thousand little loves and graces spring
To revel in the roses. [ Nicholas Rowe ]
Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art. [ Cowper ]
And steal immortal kisses from her lips;
Which even in pure and vestal modesty.
Still blush as thinking their own kisses sin. [ William Shakespeare ]
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. [ Pope ]
Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame,
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame. [ Pope ]
When words we want, love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write. [ Robert Herrick ]
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 favorites of heaven. [ Wordsworth ]
A wise man need not blush for changing his purpose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better a blush in the face than a blot in the heart. [ Cervantes ]
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 ]
To blush at vice, shews the world you are ashamed of it. [ Proverb ]
It is better for a young man to blush than to turn pale. [ Cato ]
Men may blush to hear what they were not ashamed to act. [ Proverb ]
The blush is beautiful, but it is some times inconvenient. [ Goldoni ]
A fan is indispensable to a woman who can no longer blush.
The inconvenience or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater? [ Madame Necker ]
If the bed could tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush. [ Proverb ]
Seek rather to make a man blush for his guilt than to shed his blood. [ Ter ]
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [ La Bruyere ]
We finish by excusing our faults, but we always blush at our blunders.
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell. [ Gotthold ]
Floral apostles! that in dewy splendor weep without woe, and blush without a crime. [ Horace Smith ]
They teach us to dance; O that they could teach us to blush, did it cost a guinea a glow! [ Madame Deluzy ]
The blush is nature's alarm at the approach of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue. [ Fuller ]
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. [ Johnson ]
A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew. [ Whittier ]
A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories. [ George Eliot ]
Bid the cheek be ready with a blush, modest as Morning when she coldly eyes the youthful Phoebus. [ William Shakespeare ]
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them. [ Haliburton ]
A man should never blush in confessing his errors, for he proves by his avowal that he is wiser today than yesterday. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
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. [ Talleyrand ]
You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. [ Thackeray ]