Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all…

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

— Charles Caleb Colton

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…

— Margaret Sanger

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

— Clarence Darrow

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited…

— Maria Montessori

We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers…

— John Armstrong

In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and…

— Alexander MacLaren

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where…

— Ben Jonson

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since…

— Margaret Atwood

“Information leads to transformation. If you are not inspired by being informed, you will expire by becoming deformed!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

— Sarah Bernhardt

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God…

— Fulton J. Sheen