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.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

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.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime Crime is the last resort of political half wits.

Espresso is to Italy what champagne is to France.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

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?

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

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

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

A letter does not blush.

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.

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

I don't have to wear any other makeup as long as I have blush.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.