Blot Quotes

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. (Edmund Waller)
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. View quote
George Eliot
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. View quote
Neil Armstrong
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand.' View quote
Ben Jonson
The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. View quote
Laurence Sterne
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I envy your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure - an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not? View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. (Joaquin Miller)
There 's a woman like a dewdrop, she 's so purer than the purest. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. View quote
Robert Browning
Suicide is not a blot on anyone's name; it is a tragedy. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane. View quote
Stephen Spender
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!" View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space. View quote
Andrew Johnson
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon. View quote
Jean Rhys
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. View quote
Buffalo Bill
These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation. View quote
Dick Durbin
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. View quote
Frank Waters
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. (Robert Farrar Capon)
I understand your anger and outrage, I understand your pain. And yet in the self-interest of Gujarat, and to ensure that we don't jeopardize the future of Gujarat, that Gujarat doesn't get a blot on its face [or] carry a stigma connected with these times all the 5 crore Gujaratis need to keep calm and exercise self-restraint. View quote
Narendra Modi
Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country. View quote
James Madison
The heath and changes of weather were quite blotted out from their eyes for the present. They were enclosed in a sort of luminous mist, which hid from them surroundings of any inharmonious colour, and gave to all things the character of light. When it rained they were charmed, because they could remain indoors together all day with such a show of reason; when it was fine they were charmed, because they could sit together on the hills. They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet to the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame. View quote
Thomas Campbell