These blush quotes will inspire you. Blush shows shyness, embarrassment, or shame by becoming red in the face; or be or becoming pink or pale red.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging blush quotes, blush sayings, and blush proverbs.
Best Blushing Quotes
- “On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
- “Blushing is the color of virtue.” ~ Diogenes
- “I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.” ~ Sophie Kinsella
- “The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.” ~ Carlo Goldoni
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“Blushing is the color of virtue.” ~ Matthew Henry
- “Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.” ~ Charles Darwin
- “Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I’m dealing with my blushing face.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “A blush is no language; only a dubious flag – signal which may mean either of two contradictories” ~ George Eliot
- “There’s a blush for won’t, and a blush for shan’t, and a blush for having done it: There’s a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.” ~ John Keats
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“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.” ~ William C. Bryant
- “Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.” ~ Diogenes Laertius
- “Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “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. What then? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl?” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“A letter does not blush.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E’en pity scarce can wish it less!” ~ Lord Byron
- “When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor
- “Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “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
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“People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.” ~ Saadi
- “I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It’s so embarrassing, I’m blushing.” ~ Katie Holmes
- “Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.” ~ Thomas Hood
- “If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” ~ William Shakespeare - “Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.” ~ Alexander Pope
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“For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man’s love affairs have History blushing with envy.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
- “The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous – almost of pedantic – veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
- “Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting – more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!” ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Blush quotes cheeks
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“DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one’s life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class – I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.” ~ Eva Green
- “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.” ~ William Cowper
- “Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And – when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening – nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“This 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
- “Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “The blushing beauties of a modest maid.” ~ John Dryden
- “Pure friendship’s well-feigned blush.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other’s magnetic fields for the first time, and it’s like invisible lines of energy are drawing you together-” ~ Laini Taylor
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“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.” ~ Edward Young
- “Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!” ~ William Shakespeare
- “People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. “Thank you for coming to Amsterdam,” he said. “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said. “Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa” ~ John Green
- “Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.” ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
- “It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.” ~ John Updike
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“I hoped I wasn’t blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to my battles.” ~ Rick Riordan
- “The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck’d the glade, And the low sun had lengthen’d ev’ry shade.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “Trust me when you read the script for Bad Santa 2 I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I read the script first, and I was laughing out loud and blushing and couldn’t believe what I was reading.” ~ Christina Hendricks
- “The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind, The eye does tempt to love’s desire,And seems to, say ’tis “Cupid’s fire.” ~ James Harrington
- “She what was honor knew, And with obsequious majesty approv’d My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper’d it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub.” ~ John Milton
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“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing, but the age of emotion she certainly had not.” ~ Jane Austen
- “Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.” ~ Giuseppe Mazzini , Blush quotes love
- “Where’er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade. Where’er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man’s bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I had a really bad blushing problem when I was younger. The first time I ever performed was in an English class. I had an essay that I was supposed to write, and, instead of writing an essay, I wrote a song. So, I was playing this song in class, and I literally turned the color of this sweater that I was wearing, completely red. I think it was that feeling of challenging everything in me, my introverted personality. Like, “This is what you have to do. It doesn’t matter if you do it wrong, you just have to do it.”” ~ Caitlin Rose
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“Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.” ~ Catherynne M. Valente
- “I can’t help blushing and looking down at my feet. “It was nothing.” “It was literally everything to me.” I look up, putting on my best version of Eight’s teasing smile. “In that case, I think I deserve more than a gross hot dog.” Eight clasps his hands across his chest like I’ve wounded him. “You’re right! I’m a fool to think my life could be traded for a hot dog.” He grabs my hand and gets down on one knee, pressing his forehead to the back of my hand. “My savior, what can I ever do to repay you?” ~ Pittacus Lore
- “Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoice I see thy purple mantle spread over half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way, And orient pearls from ev’ry shrub depend.” ~ William Somerville
- “On my wedding day. I didn’t want a natural, blushing-bride look – I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath.” ~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
- “A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half-drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.” ~ Ovid
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“Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience–this is what you get if you haven’t sinned.” ~ Karl Kraus
- “Le mot ‘psychologie’est un de ceux qu’aucun auteur d’aujourd’hui ne peut entendre prononcer a’ son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word ‘psychology’ is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.” ~ Nathalie Sarraute
- “Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is less shame for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence.” ~ Francis Quarles
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“The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I think I do become someone else. In real life, I’m very shy, but people think I’m this angry, sexy kind of… god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I’m definitely not the person you see in pictures. I mean, in pictures, you look like something you’re not.” ~ Lara Stone
- “This a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man’s bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.” ~ William Shakespeare
Blush to become red in the face especially from shame, modesty, or confusion.
