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Art is significant deformity. -- Roger Fry
His modesty amounts to deformity. -- Margot Asquith
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
Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all; For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's index, or its case? -- Charles Caleb Colton
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. -- Max Beerbohm
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 things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. -- Baruch Spinoza
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. -- William Blake
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 issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you. -- Christina Ricci
I was born with lots of deformities. -- Gemma Arterton
Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. -- Frank Zappa
Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge. -- Robert Gottlieb
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. -- Dean Acheson
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. -- Clarence Darrow
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
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. -- Robert Blair
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. -- Charles Baudelaire
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection. -- Pope Gregory I
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 out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself. -- Irenaeus of Lyons
Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration. -- Thomas de Quincey
My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing. -- Victor Hugo
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage. -- Blaise Pascal
A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life. -- Christopher Hitchens
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. -- Alexander Hamilton
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires. -- Bernard de Mandeville
Conformity is deformity -- Sharon Desruisseaux
Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness. -- Plato
Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away. -- Saadi
There is no deformity But saves us from a dream. -- William Butler Yeats
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. -- Joseph Addison
Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman. -- William Shakespeare
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons. -- Sarah Bernhardt
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
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. -- Charles Caleb Colton
As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity. -- John Dryden
I won't talk about someone's mother. I won't talk about their girlfriend or their wife, but if you have a deformity, I would talk about that. -- Shannon Sharpe
There's a deformity in the information that the public in the United Statesis receiving. It's contained in kind of a bubble and one day this bubble will explode. -- Rula Jebreal
I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity. -- Sara Cox

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