His modesty amounts to deformity.
For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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.
Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and bondage. Whether we wish to or not, we are all drawing our own pictures in the lives we are living.
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.
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.
Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.
Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.
Art is significant deformity.
There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child. . . . Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman. . . the want of it is her greatest deformity.
