#deformity

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#deformity #secrets #ugliness #beauty

His modesty amounts to deformity. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#his #modesty

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. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#ever #his #law #man #nature

Art is significant deformity. ↗

— Roger Fry

#deformity #significant

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

#deformity #ever #heart #kind #manners

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. ↗

— Robert Blair

#begin #being #certain #deformity #end

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

#eyes #green #imagination #itself #joy

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#about #around #blow #crippling #deformity

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#add #deformities #deformity #enough #never

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

#beautiful #beauty #called #confused #confusion