Top 100 Stain Quotes
#1. For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.
Charles Dickens
#2. What was the point of trying at all, if in the end you were no better, no longer, no more real than a bathroom sink and a rust stain?
Lauren Oliver
#3. I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.
Rachel Zoe
#4. People start aging from early, very early, on. Gradually it spreads over their entire body like a stain that cannot be wiped away.
Haruki Murakami
#5. Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#6. When you go to a bar that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.
Mitch Hedberg
#7. Nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
Madeline Miller
#8. Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.
Xenophon
#10. Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.
Josephine Lawrence
#11. Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.
Totie Fields
#12. What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired - a word which here means 'happened, and made everybody sad'.
Lemony Snicket
#13. Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.
Alastair Reynolds
#14. I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness.
Jimmy Swaggart
#15. Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#16. We get a little further from perfection,
each year on the road,
I guess that's what they call character,
I guess that's just the way it goes,
better to be dusty than polished,
like some store window mannequin,
why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,
let me stain your hands
Ani DiFranco
#17. Going away isn't going to help as much as you think. The memory stays with you, and the stain. It's not something you slough off once you leave.
Azar Nafisi
#18. He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.
Nadeem Aslam
#19. I collect my thoughts as if they will stain me, murder me, and then resurrect me.
Markus Zusak, When Dogs Cry
Markus Zusak
#20. I was just trying to remove a stain; I made a bigger stain.
Deborah Treisman
#21. I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know ...
Gretel Ehrlich
#22. You and I are going to learn how to fly. And then we'll stain this kingdom red.
Sarah J. Maas
#23. I was born with a stain. A mark. Like the mark of Cain. But is the mark of my father, my family. The mark of Borgia. I have tried to be other than I am. And I have failed. And If I have failed you in the process, I am truly sorry.
Cesare Borgia
#24. Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.
John Gay
#25. Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
Diane Ackerman
#26. Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#27. Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn't your own. Sometimes you're chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man's, grown in a different heart, and it takes longer than a fading bruise to forget.
Gregory David Roberts
#28. Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
Terry Goodkind
#29. His words hung around, too, leaving their brain stain on the air.
Karen Russell
#30. Not a mark on it. (Joe)
Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I'll bet there's a big stain there. (Tee)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital ... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
Jodi Picoult
#32. Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
Theodore Dreiser
#33. Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile ... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
#34. When a man molests a woman or girl, he steals her identity. You don't know who you are anymore. You don't have an address or a home. You're nothing.
It's like a stain you can't wash out of your soul
James Lee Burke
#35. Preserve my understanding from subtilty of error, my affections from love of idols, my character from stain of vice, my profession from every form of evil. May
Anonymous
#36. Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
Robert Frost
#37. The modest Rose puts forth a Thorn.
The humble Sheep a threat'ning Horn.
While the Lily white shall in love delight.
Nor a Thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
William Blake
#38. I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
#39. Judge not; the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see;
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#40. The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.
Anthony Of Padua
#41. And Sophie?" He looked at me. "Yes?" I asked. "Please, I'm begging you, stay away from the power tools." "Will do," I said. "Thank you," he breathed a sigh of relief. "Caeden can build the cabinet and you can stain and I'll grade you on that. Get to work.
Micalea Smeltzer
#42. Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.
Billy Graham
#43. The blood of Jesus did not merely "cover" the sins of your wicked heart ... leaving a stain! It completely remove them all wiping them out as if they never existed there in the first place! It's called redemption!
John Paul Warren
#44. I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.
Heinrich Heine
#45. I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'
Aunjanue Ellis
#46. The writing is definitely on the wall and no matter how pretty the ink looks, it will still bleed through and stain the layers beneath permanently.
K. Bromberg
#47. Y'know when your dog drags its butt across the carpet leaving a stain- It's not as easy as it looks ... "
Josh Stern
#48. as she slept, her period came because bodies know nothing about timing, bodies, awful bodies. They put a Rorschach between your thighs and stain your sheets to remind you that all you're doing is bleeding and dying if you're not making more life. That
Catherine Lacey
#49. Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
John Quincy Adams
#50. The stain of prejudice is often indelible.
Gerry Spence
#51. You greasy shit stain on a diseased elk's warty asshole.
Ian Tregillis
#52. Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood
Robert Greene
#54. Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
Isaac Watts
#55. Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off.
Lil' Wayne
#56. The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.
George W. Bush
#57. Vampires hated to lose blood - it was troublesome to replace and always left a stain.
Gail Carriger
#58. The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.
Eduardo Galeano
#60. Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.
Katherine McIntyre
#61. If an act of evil is to stain my soul, it will be for one of my own.
A. Zavarelli
#62. One day I was in the grocery store, and I saw raspberries, and I was like, 'Oh, I can make a lip stain out of that.'
Bethany Mota
#63. A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
Honore De Balzac
#64. And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.
Boomer Esiason
#65. My hands are still bleeding, too bloody. Every stain once gone has returned, like a permanent mark of the sins I've committed.
Christine Fonseca
#66. Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh ...
Marge Piercy
#67. Why be content with stain class, a Church steeple and religious rituals when God invites you into a loving and intimate relation with Him because His son Jesus Christ paid the full and final price for all your sins.
John Paul Warren
#68. Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.
Pope Francis
#69. Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.
Greta Garbo
#70. Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.
Stephan Pastis
#71. People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall ... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.
Tom Waits
#72. Democrats are not angry about 9/11. Sad, maybe - sad that it didn't happen on Clinton's watch so his legacy would be more than a semen stain. But they're not angry.
Ann Coulter
#73. My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
Ernst Mach
#74. I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.
Lindsay Lohan
#75. I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.
Matt Stone
#76. He had an orange stain on his mouth from the prawns, the old jabberwock.
Donna Tartt
#77. It's something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to."
"You're comparing love to a ... stain?"
He leans so far back in his seat that the front legs of his chair scrape off the floor. He looks very satisfied, with the crepe or with himself, I'm not sure. "Exactly.
Gayle Forman
#78. President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain?
Craig Kilborn
#79. As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.
Mara Liasson
#81. The girl slid into the back seat of the town car, tugging at the hem of her dress like she was afraid she might leave a stain on the upholstery.
John McNee
#82. Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
Sophie Swetchine
#83. As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
Henry David Thoreau
#84. It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
#85. Please don't do this - don't do this to me. If anything happened to you - "
He looked at her with surprise. There was already a red stain on the white bandages that wrapped his chest, where his movements had pulled his wound open. "I ... "
"What?"
"I'm not used to you loving me," he said.
Cassandra Clare
#86. The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
Mike Ferguson
#87. Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn't stain the carpet.
Karen Hawkins
#88. Pre-treating is a really important step for stain removal. It's best to treat stains right away, so blot fresh stains with a paper towel or a white rag.
Clinton Kelly
#89. For most Americans of the eighteenth century, it was assumed impossible for a servant to shed his lowly origins; the meaner sort, as one newspaper insisted, could never "wash out the stain of servility." There were fears that the meaner sort were treading too close on the heels of those above them.
Nancy Isenberg
#90. I long to drift through turquoise skies;
race the wind in rampant flight.
Ruddy chains have framed my eyes,
they seize my heart and stain the light.
Craig Froman
#91. He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.
Joseph Heller
#92. I think I'm going to start charging you extra for lies. Someone needs to pay for the stain on my soul.
Kylie Scott
#93. Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
Oscar Wilde
#94. But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
John Gay
#95. The sunset was really over, but a thunderously deep stain of red still lay across the furthest limit of the western sky. I looked out to it for a moment. Skye was somewhere out there, more felt than seen.
Iain Banks
#96. Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.
Mark Twain
#98. Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
...On the other hand, he SAID it.
Art Spiegelman
#99. I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.
Peter Carey
#100. It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!
Wladyslaw Szpilman
