"People blush at praise--not only praise of their……" — C.S. Lewis
"People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site.
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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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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