Deformity Quotes

54 quotes by 50 authors

We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go. We… — Henry Scougal
In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone… — Fulton J. Sheen
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase… — Victor Hugo
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities — Chinua Achebe
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — Clarence Darrow
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton
There is no deformity But saves us from a dream. — William Butler Yeats
Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away. — Saadi
Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes. — Franz Kafka
A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave… — Michael Bassey
For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought. — B. H. Liddell Hart
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
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into… — Joseph Addison
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided… — Alexander MacLaren
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. — Charles Caleb Colton
Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but… — Karl Marx
We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge… — Christina Ricci
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. — Eleanor Roosevelt
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. — John Ruskin
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can… — Baruch Spinoza

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