Edmund Burke wrote 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' in 1757. This little gem comes from it;
"The cause of beauty... where it is highest, in the female sex, almost always carries with it an idea of weakness and imperfection. Women are very sensible for this; for which reason, they learn to lisp, to totter in their walk, to counterfiet weakness, and even sickness. In all this they are guided by nature.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Blushing has little less power; and modesty in general, which is a tacit allowance of imperfection, is itself considered as an amiable quality, and certainly heightens every other that is so."
No wonder we all love a nice blush... it has a power over men, and of course looks oh so winsomely. So innocently charming...
I want a new blush...
(Picture source: Oyster Magazine)
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