A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

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Call Case Deformity Face Form Heart Soul Worst

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Charles Caleb Colton
English - Writer
1780 - 1832

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

Clarence Darrow

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

Joseph Addison

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

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

Art is significant deformity.

Roger Fry

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Margot Asquith

Thou lump of foul deformity!

William Shakespeare

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

Plato

There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

William Butler Yeats

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.

Arthur Frederick Saunders

Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.

William Shakespeare

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.