Blush

Famous quotes containing the word blush:

“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Ours is the bee’s soft belly
and the blush of the rose-petal,
lifted, of the flower.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“An angel, robed in spotless white,
Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night.
Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone.
Men saw the blush and called it Dawn.”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)