Deprave Quotes

#1. My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.

John Kennedy Toole

#2. The story of human nature is a fair romance. Am I to blame if it is not found elsewhere? I am trying to write the history of mankind. If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

St. Jerome

#4. If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#5. Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure-its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. You come in all tall, dark, and deadly and my lady parts go all cuckoo for cocoa puffs and shit.

Amelia Hutchins

#8. Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you're not in Baby Gap, you're not cool. That's how everybody's grown up, so they don't even know it could be another way.

Catherine Hardwicke

#9. Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Isaac Watts

#10. I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

Arnaud Desplechin

#11. There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

John Noble