Blot Quotes

64 quotes by 62 authors

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students… — Diane Ravitch
Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the… — Chauncey Depew
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity. — Miguel de Cervantes
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. — Edmund Waller
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs. — William Styron
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim. — Susie Orbach
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in… — B. H. Liddell Hart
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away… — Kailash Satyarthi
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. — Henry Fielding
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist,… — Alexander Pope
I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he… — Walter J. Phillips
The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale… — Ann Landers
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to… — Cyril Connolly
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death. — Annie Dillard
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we… — George Eliot
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats.… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not… — Ingrid Newkirk
Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from… — Ken Kesey
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy… — Charles Dickens

Who Wrote These Blot Quotes

62 authors contributed a total of 64 Blot Quotes, led by these top contributors: