Crime Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“And if these men steal, if there is developing among them a suspicion and hatred of well-dressed, satisfied people, the reason is not to…

— John Steinbeck

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

— Lord Chesterfield

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the…

— Bernard de Mandeville

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush…

— Judith Viorst

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

— Luc de Clapiers

“My weakness consists in not having a discriminating eye for the incidental --- for the externals, --- no eye for the hod of the…

— Joseph Conrad

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

— Jonathan Swift

“Blushing manifests the exposure, the unexpectedness, the involuntary nature of shame. In On Shame and the Search for Identity Helen Lynd writes, “One’s feeling…

— John Bradshaw

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely…

— Anne Bronte