Some stains never wash out.

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

— R. Scott Bakker

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

— William Ames

Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“When you truly love someone a part of you is stained in their Color. Their memories, their love, their mannerisms, their vocabulary it all…

— Drishti Bablani

If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that…

— Hudson Maxim

Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of…

— Noah Webster

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will…

— Iyanla Vanzant

For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after…

— Charles Dickens

You worthless sonofabitch. You should never have been anything more than a cum stain! (Stryker)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself,…

— Oscar Wilde

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not…

— James Monroe

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark…

— Robert Frost

As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches…

— Antony Sher