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Quotes About Abashed

When the name was in the room, it came to pass that the murderer, abashed, opened up, and there sprang forth, like a Glory, from his pitiable fragments, an altar on which there lay, in the roses, a woman of light and flesh. The alter undulated on a foul mud into which it sank: the murderer.
~ Jean Genet
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
~ John Milton
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
~ Boris Pasternak
It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Truth bends abashed, and answers not.
~ Thomas Hardy
. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.
~ John Milton
As I have lived all my married life in furnished houses, amongst other people's belongings, I am neither surprised nor abashed to hear of this strange deficiency,
~ D.E. Stevenson
What a stupid little girl you are. I'm going to kiss you." "Go ahead." She pouted out her lower lip, not in the least abashed.
~ Osamu Dazai