Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics
“Blushing is the colour of virtue.”
Jeremiah 20.
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Theologician from Wales 1662–1714Related quotes
“Truth does not blush.”
Nihil veritas erubescit
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Adversus Valentinianos, 3.2
“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night VII, Line 496.
“The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient.”
Carlo Goldoni (1707–1794) Italian playwright and librettist
Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta.
I. 3.
Pamela (c. 1750)
“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXVII
Following the Equator (1897)
“5306. Truth makes the Devil blush.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
O meu problema, nesta situação, é saber se já deveria ter corado antes, ou se é agora que devo corar, Lembro-me de a ter visto corar uma vez, Quando, Quando toquei na rosa que estava no seu gabinete, As mulheres coram mais que os homens, somos o sexo frágil, Ambos os sexos são frágeis, eu também corei, Sabe assim tanto da fragilidade dos sexos, Sei da minha própria fragilidade, e alguma coisa da dos outros.
Source: The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989), p. 219
“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
Alexander Pope An Essay on Man
Source: An Essay on Man
“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism