I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.
Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.
'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.
He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic. . . muscular.
To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.
Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.
If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.
In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.
we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.
That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.
