Leprous Quotes

#1. Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.

James Joyce

#2. Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell.

Prudentius

#3. Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of a dwarfish and ignoble worm!

Lewis Padgett

#5. I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

Khalil Gibran

#6. You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
all this leprous day and then more vodka,
more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
the pond sucking out the throb.

Anne Sexton

#7. If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.

Jack Davenport

#8. that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#9. Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.

Sarah Dessen

#10. Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbones and Pernod.

Anthony Bourdain

#11. Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

Frank Zappa

#12. If you want to be a cartoonist, live the life of a cartoonist.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#13. New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

John Dryden