DEFORMITY

Related Subjects: Ugliness

1. Deformity is daring; it is its essence to overtake mankind by heart and soul and make itself the equal, aye, the superior of others.—BYRON
   

2. Deformity of heart I call the worst deformity of all; for what is form, or face, but the soul's index, or its case?—C. C. COLTON
   

3. Physical deformity calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.—CLARENCE DARROW
   

4. Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind against 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 tranquilizing smile of continual admiration.—DE QUINCEY
   

5. Do you suppose we owe nothing to Pope's deformity?—He said to himself, "If my person be crooked, my verses shall be straight."—HAZLITT
   

6. If all the world were ugly, deformity would be no monster.—Proverb

7. A deformed body may have a beautiful soul.—Proverb