Quotes about embarrassment

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"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on embarrassment

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"He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse."

Byron, Lord on embarrassment

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"We never forgive those who make us blush."

Harpe, Jean-Francois De La on embarrassment
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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 for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it."

Keats, John on embarrassment