#blush

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

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead

A letter does not blush. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#does #letter

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

#blush #convenient #sometimes

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. ↗

— Mark Twain

#blushes #man #needs #only

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#always #blush #first #hard #i

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences. ↗

— Jacqueline McKenzie

#blush #easily #get #terrified #very

I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days that I have I like to let my skin breathe, but of course I'm girly so I like to put on some blush and some mascara. ↗

— Bar Refaeli

#blush #breathe #course #days #during

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ↗

— Sa'Di

#crying #feet #himself #his #peacock

I don’t quite know how to respond to people who say that I dance like my genitals are on fire. I usually just blush and brush aside their flattery. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dance #flattery #funny #funny

I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto. ↗

— E.L. James

#anastasia #anastasia-steele #blush #communist-manifesto #e-l-james