BLUSH

Bacon, Francis
Blushing is the livery of virtue, though it may sometimes proceed from guilt.

Balfour, Francis Maitland
The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame.

Bruyere, Jean de la
Men blush less for their crimes, than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Cervantes, Saavedra M de
Better a blush on the face than a blot on the heart.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius
It is better for a young man to blush, than to turn pale.

Diogenes
A blush is the color of virtue.

Fuller, Thomas
The blush is nature's alarm at the approach of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue.

Goldoni, Carlo
A blush is beautiful, but often inconvenient.

Gotthold
A blush is a sign that nature hangs out, to show where chastity and honor dwell.

Gregory the Great
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.

Menander
Whoever blushes seems to be good.

Moore, Thomas
Playful blushes, that seem but luminous escapes of thought.

Necker, Madame
The inconvenience, or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater?

Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Whoever blushes, is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Spenser, Edmund
The troubled blood through his pale face was seen to come and go with tidings from his heart, as it a running messenger had been.

Young, Edward
The man that blushes is not quite a prute.