Quotes with deformity

  • No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

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  • Bernard Mandeville 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 Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Baruch Spinoza 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
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm 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.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • John Ruskin 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
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Cato the Elder Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • William Blake 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
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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