Profanation Quotes
7 quotes by 7 authors
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Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name…
— Noah Webster
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
— Marquis de Sade
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
— William Shakespeare
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Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,…
— Victor Hugo
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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance…
— George Bernard Shaw
Who Wrote These Profanation Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 7 Profanation Quotes as follows: