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«Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?»
«One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to 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?»
«Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity»
«It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It's one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it's my job to be outside of that and it's not like I'm on the outside when they're all watching me. [About the famous car wash scene from One Night at McCool's]»
Author: Liv Tyler
(Actress)
| Keywords:
blush, Car Wash, dressed-up, embarrassing, get dressed, movie star, not famous, the movie, wash
«In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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blush, European, sufferings, the Enlightenment, townspeople, upper class, verities, verity
«See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.»
«Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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blush
«It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.»
Author: George Herbert
(Clergyman, Poet)
| Keywords:
blush, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing
«So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.»
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