No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever…

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

— John Ruskin

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for…

— Max Beerbohm

Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a…

— John H Richardson

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

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

“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

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

— Clarence Darrow

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

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

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