Aspersion Quote by Gustave Flaubert

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes…

— Gustave Flaubert

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your…

— Gustave Flaubert

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

— Gustave Flaubert

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

— Hildegard Knef

When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are…

— Carey Mulligan

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are on the whole an idolatrous people.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

— Elizabeth Taylor

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

— Timothy Keller

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

— John Bach