Deformity Quotes
54 quotes by 50 authors
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Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be…
— Victor Hugo
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He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
— Frank Zappa
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Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.
— William Shakespeare
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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 high…
— Margaret Atwood
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I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.
— Clare B. Dunkle
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they…
— Ben Jonson
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Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
— Robert Blair
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The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all…
— Markesa Yeager
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Having the gene that makes you want to be famous is like being born with a deformity.
— Hugh Grant
Who Wrote These Deformity Quotes
50 authors contributed a total of 54 Deformity Quotes, led by these top contributors: