Quotes About Defile

#1. I don't wanna go. I want to defile the prestigious Plaza Hotel by having you ride me like a slutty mermaid in the bathtub.

Emma Chase

#2. It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

Benedict Of Nursia

#3. Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

Idries Shah

#4. The curse of men can't make me defiled.
I defile myself if I curse men by intention.

Toba Beta

#5. It is only through the radical defile of speech that we fall into the illusion that language is a register of conscious construction

Lacan Jacques

#6. To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Simone Weil

#7. I'm not going to defile my fingers with him,' said I, in answer to the maternal intercession. 'I wouldn't touch him with the tongs.' I

Anne Bronte

#8. The mind is a temple;
negative thoughts defile it.
The heart is a temple;
positive desires elevate it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Don't try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I'd rather dirty up.

S.L. Jennings

#10. To defile yourself, yet not really be defiled - that's true purity. If you're fastidious about defilement, you're not going to do anything. You'll never become a real man,

Yukio Mishima

#11. For a man to subdue a man is to defile God's purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#12. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

Terri Blackstock

#13. It wasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.

Francine Rivers

#14. I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.

Donald Miller

#15. What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?

Kenneth Patchen

#16. When you defile the pleasant streams,
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams,
And cast your spittle in God's face

John Drinkwater

#17. I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

William Butler Yeats

#18. Sacred interpreter of human thought,
How few respect or use thee as they ought!
But all shall give account of every wrong,
Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue;
Who prostitute it in the cause of vice,
Or sell their glory at a market-price!

William Cowper

#19. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it,

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. [T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

Albert Cossery

#21. To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#22. Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves

Anonymous

#23. I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

Jen Hatmaker

#24. We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.

Heinrich Himmler

#25. know your ignorance; defile your ignorance

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#26. He could write an epic poem about her ass. And all the ways he wanted to defile it.

R.G. Alexander

#27. Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.

Doc Holliday

#28. Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you
and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#29. For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.

Griffin Jay

#30. Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains and the sea. They bore through silent nature in every direction with their machines, for fear that the calm world might accuse them of their own emptiness.

Thomas Merton

#31. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Paul The Apostle

#32. People who don't believe in government are likely to defile government.

Bill Moyers

#33. To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#34. We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Mark Twain

#35. There are men who need to defile themselves in order to get on with their lives.

Rick Moody

#36. The things that come out of a man are they that defile him, and to get rid of them a man must go into himself, be a convict, and scrub the floor of his cell.

George MacDonald

#37. The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.

John Maynard Keynes

#38. What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

Oscar Wilde

#39. Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

John Milton

#40. I might have been a little mesmerized for a moment as I took in the sight of her shapely backside. It was incredible. I just wanted to spank it and bite it and worship it and completely fucking defile it.

Penny Reid

#41. Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Selena Kitt