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Tag Name "Taint" (35)

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I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
J. A. Baker
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The taint of arrogance will I not know.
Walter Russell
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
Michel de Montaigne
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We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
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The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
Eric Hoffer
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The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.
Charlotte Charke
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There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
David Mamet
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He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!
Patrick Süskind
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They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.
James Lee
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It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.
Jim Rohn
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The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.
George Meredith
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