We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes…

“turned back toward the filling station, a sprawling blemish beside the old highway.”

— Bob McElwain

“Kimi Kanasket was a black mark on an otherwise joyous occasion, like the drunk uncle who causes a scene at a family wedding. You…

— Robert Dugoni

“... for a man may cover his blemish, but unbind it he cannot, for where once 'tis applied, thence part will it never.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering…

— Daniel Handler

“ blemish, n. The slight acne scars. The penny-sized, penny-shaped birthmark right above your knee. The dot below your shoulder that must have been…

— David Levithan

we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied…

— Elizabeth I

Growing up, we talked about all you have is your last name. That's what people will remember you by and that's how people know…

— Kenny Stills

“Our flaws either follow us into the world, or wait for us to be born.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

— Saadi

If I do get a blemish, I use Clinique Acne Solutions spot treatment.

— Devon Windsor

“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES…

— Agnostic Zetetic

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

— Winston Churchill

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

— Simonides of Ceos

“I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is." And what is it?" asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing…

— E.M. Forster