Top 41 Canker'd Quotes

#1. Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

Robert Greene

Canker'd Quotes #2795
#2. Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

Mahatma Gandhi

Canker'd Quotes #55878
#3. Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Horace Mann

Canker'd Quotes #57490
#4. There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

Sadegh Hedayat

Canker'd Quotes #70371
#5. I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Anne Rice

Canker'd Quotes #83259
#6. In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.

Sadegh Hedayat

Canker'd Quotes #110681
#7. E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower,
That Time upon her angel brow should set
His crooked autograph, and mar the jet
Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green,
The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy.
Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.

Isaac McLellan

Canker'd Quotes #125331
#8. The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

Mahatma Gandhi

Canker'd Quotes #147156
#9. Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

Pliny The Elder

Canker'd Quotes #149633
#10. Be mine that silent calm repast,
A conscience cheerful to the last:
That tree which bears immortal fruit,
Without a canker at the root;
That friend which never fails the just,
When other friends desert their trust.

Nathaniel Cotton

Canker'd Quotes #178389
#11. The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

Pietro Metastasio

Canker'd Quotes #272063
#12. Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

William Shakespeare

Canker'd Quotes #305687
#13. Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!

William Shakespeare

Canker'd Quotes #438740
#14. Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

Jack Vance

Canker'd Quotes #451271
#15. First try all other means, but if the wound
Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
From the diseased the canker spread.

Ovid

Canker'd Quotes #512835
#16. The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

Walter Savage Landor

Canker'd Quotes #524682
#17. You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

Tamora Pierce

Canker'd Quotes #581367
#18. Yet is there one more cursed than they all,
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery,
Through fear of losing his felicity.

Edmund Spenser

Canker'd Quotes #705969
#19. My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

Lord Byron

Canker'd Quotes #730405
#20. Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

Fanny Fern

Canker'd Quotes #753724
#21. Whenever something comes into our life that hurts us, we do the decidin' - do I let this work for my good, as God intended, or do I let bitterness grow like a bothersome canker sore in my soul?

Janette Oke

Canker'd Quotes #790443
#22. When you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent causelessness, be sure that there is a canker somewhere, and a canker not the less deeply corroding because concealed.

Charlotte Bronte

Canker'd Quotes #828436
#23. In the actual world
the painful kingdom of time and place
dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Canker'd Quotes #880814
#24. A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Charles Baudelaire

Canker'd Quotes #965296
#25. Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

Hannah More

Canker'd Quotes #983965
#26. We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

Joseph Hall

Canker'd Quotes #1128128
#27. The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

Canker'd Quotes #1152539
#28. O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

William Shakespeare

Canker'd Quotes #1157478
#29. We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Canker'd Quotes #1204744
#30. Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

Samuel Johnson

Canker'd Quotes #1251983
#31. Jess's feelings about Leslie's father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better.

Katherine Paterson

Canker'd Quotes #1314892
#32. On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.

Zoe Saldana

Canker'd Quotes #1375105
#33. And writers say, as the most forward bud
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
Even so by love the young and tender wit
Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
Losing his verdure even in the prime,
And all the fair effects of future hopes.

William Shakespeare

Canker'd Quotes #1431943
#34. The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world.

Henry De Montherlant

Canker'd Quotes #1460048
#35. There's a joy without canker or cark,
There's a pleasure eternally new,
'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of china that's ancient and blue.

Andrew Lang

Canker'd Quotes #1482243
#36. We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth ... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.

Thomas Jefferson

Canker'd Quotes #1551990
#37. Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

Samuel Johnson

Canker'd Quotes #1637025
#38. In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

Sadegh Hedayat

Canker'd Quotes #1773379
#39. The canker of self-consciousness has been long in me, so like a lot of writers I not only do a thing, I see myself doing it too - it's almost like not being alone. That morning our hero skipped in his skivvies down to the shore of the sea . . . it was dark . . . the fog . . . Storytelling!

Charles D'Ambrosio

Canker'd Quotes #1776670
#40. Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

James Anthony Froude

Canker'd Quotes #1836705
#41. Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

Jacqueline Carey

Canker'd Quotes #1859657

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