Why do your cheeks feel hot? “I think I’m blushing. And…

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart,…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

“Miss Clerricot blushes most charmingly and raises a hand to cover a portion of her countenance. It is a shame, this ill-feeling that exists…

— William Trevor

“Why couldn't he feel things in secret like other people?”

— Juliette Rose Kerr

I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but…

— William Shakespeare

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

— Diogenes Laertius

“Your blush confirms my suspicions. See, I am learning how to use your methods to perform interrogations.”

— Byrd Nash

The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.”

— Seneca

“Careful,” he said. “If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you.”

— Nenia Campbell

There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing…

— Andrew Bird

“Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed?…

— Robert Herrick

Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head,…

— Megan Whalen Turner

From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do. I find…

— Alicia Sacramone