"The bold defiance of a woman is the……" — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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40 Quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a…
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Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
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In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
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It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
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War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
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In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a…
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There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or…
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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool,…
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More Blush Quotes
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
— Annie Besant
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A letter does not blush.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
— Charles Darwin
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
— William Shakespeare
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
— Charles Darwin
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
— Charles Darwin
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
— Mary McCarthy
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
— George Herbert
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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush…
— John Keats
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