Warts And All Quotes

#1. In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

Lewis Black

#2. The only part of love that is blind is that first rush of endorphins and craziness; after that wears off, no one knows you as honestly, warts and all, as the people who love you, truly love you.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. You're so charming you make us forget that you have to be a serial killer on the inside to do what you do to us. Put us in your plays, warts and all, showing us off like we're some sort of sideshow freaks.

Lauren Groff

#4. If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

Warren Mundine

#5. The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

Frank Miller

#6. The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

George Harrison

#7. If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

Adrian Lyne

#8. When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

Mark Steyn

#9. I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

Sam Worthington

#10. It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Adele

#11. I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly.

Greg Behrendt

#12. I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.

Michael Winter

#13. You're lucky to have such great friends," Joey said quietly. "Luck has nothing to do with it, dearie. We decided to become friends and to stay friends, through thick and thin, warts and all.

Barbara J. Zitwer

#14. He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.

John Grisham

#15. I want what you're throwing away. I want someone in my life who loves me-warts and all. I want someone to smile at me first thing in the morning. I want someone to give a damn whether I come home in the evening.

Karen Keast

#16. It's strange how the people you care about least, sometimes know you the best. You let your guard down with them because you don't mind that they see you, warts and all.

Paige Toon

#17. Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Willard Scott

#18. Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

Margaret Thatcher

#19. To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

Mark Epstein

#20. The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Geri Halliwell

#21. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.

Howard Dean

#22. Witches' Warts! Looks like I'm going to have to break witch law again.

Rowena May O'Sullivan

#23. Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.

Jackie Gleason

#24. I'm a domna. I can smile at even the ugliest toad and flatter him on his perfectly placed warts.

Susan Dennard

#25. This was supposedly an Honors American History class, for seniors only. What deep, dark secrets of American History needed to be kept from younger minds? Were they going to talk about Washington's VD? Lincoln's warts? Roosevelt's hemorrhoids?

Melodie Starkey

#26. Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

John Forsythe

#27. Are you going to last if I start nibbling at your ankles and work my way up?"
"No. You might make it to my knee, but only if I think about starving children and venereal warts.

Katie MacAlister

#28. That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. I don't know," she said. "I'm not sure you would like me in real life. I'm a lot different there, you know. I don't even look the same."
" I don't care if you look like a troll with warts," Sir Leo declared, taking her hand in his. "I love you.

Mari Mancusi

#30. This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

H. Rap Brown

#31. Perfection can hide a lot of warts.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#32. You must take the good that people do and put the bright light on that good, but human beings can never withstand such light without showing their shadows and warts. All mortals have their shortcomings and weaknesses.

Maya Angelou

#33. Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

Mignon McLaughlin

#34. God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

John Ortberg

#35. Say - what is dead cats good for, Huck?" "Good for? Cure warts with.

Mark Twain

#36. My songs grow on people - like warts.

Glenn Frey

#37. Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

Saul Bellow

#38. Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places ... gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

Gay Talese

#39. Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Oliver Cromwell

#40. I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood ... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

Michel De Montaigne

#41. And while all of your friends are grieving at your wake, I hope the sprinkler system turns on and sprays them with AIDS, hepatitis C and liquified genital warts. And while they're all running out and crying, I hope one of them slips and accidentally molests a child.

Jim Norton

#42. I've had a life experience that's full of warts, full of successes.

Jeb Bush

#43. There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

P. J. O'Rourke

#44. I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you ... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit. -Thayer

Wally Lamb

#45. Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ...

Thomas Browne

#46. It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#47. The difference between a prince and a toad is overrated because they are both just boys underneath the glitter and the warts.

Lauren Bjorkman

#48. Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the same universe of creative genius. Like Ellison's work, Rampersad's text wrestles eloquently with difficult truths about race, politics, and American life.

Michael Eric Dyson

#49. She hated funeral homes with their thick carpets and elegantly appointed decor. She would much prefer an all-out Irish wake where everyone drank too much Guinness and brawls broke out. That's how the dead should be honored- with life and all of it's warts.

Elizabeth Meyette

#50. If your hogs have warts, call us. Hogwarts Wart Removal. 555-HOGWARTS

Kate Klise

#51. I liked frogs better when they just peed in your hand and gave you warts.

Cary McNeal

#52. Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

Howard Dean

#53. Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

Thomas A. Bailey

#54. Over the coun-ter, she might let you mount-her, but in the morning, there'll be no more whoring, as its off to the doc-ter for warts of your cock-ter

Sarah Hall

#55. If worries were warts, I'd be a toad!

Emily Nelson

#56. A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

David Mumford

#57. I read her thoughts and I found the poetry inside of her, beneath the misfortune of warts and pockmarked skin, of hunched shoulders and deformed limbs. I loved her. Indeed she became, whole and entire, quite beautiful to me - . And she came to love me with her whole heart.

Anne Rice

#58. Hemorrhoids. Cockroaches. Anal warts. Lonely nights. Smoking's ravages. AIDS. All the ads promised relief from these things, but where was the relief from these ads?

George Dawes Green