Quotes About Taint

It only takes a drop of poison to turn what is sound to something rotten and corrupt." -p. 201

The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.

All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality.

& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect

Unkindness may do much;And his unkindness may defeat my life,But never taint my love.

My child, a true-confession story should never be tarnished by any taint of truth.

A rotten fish spoils all the fish in the basket.

with the Power, the taint on the male half of the True Source rolling off the protection of his bonds and oaths, the ties to what he knew as a greater power than the Light, or even the Creator.

Magic means nothing. It has the potential to connect us to something wonderful, as does any performance, but it is not wonderful in itself, for it is inseparable from the particular performance in which it is experienced. A magician who is too fast, too slow, mumbles, shouts, smells, is unlikeable or incomprehensible will unavoidably taint his magic with his personal failings.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

The paradox lies in the fact that even if I do not want to be a colonizer, and have even protested against colonialism, I am a colonizer by the mere fact of membership in the nation that colonizes others. Only at the price of renouncing my own country and nation, and perhaps at the price of changing my skin color (a theoretical proposition), could I rid myself of this taint, this odium.

He had robbed the body of its taint, the world's taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

There's a taint in the fog tonight," he announced. The Mouser said dryly, "I already smell dead fish, burnt fat, horse dung, tickly lint, Lankhmar sausage gone stale, cheap temple incense burnt by the ten-pound cake, rancid oil, moldy grain, slaves' barracks, embalmers' tanks crowded to the black brim, and the stink of a cathedral full of unwashed carters and trulls celebrating orgiastic rites—and now you tell me of a taint!

The numbers burned in effigy, or condemned to penance, punishments generally equivalent to exile, confiscation, and taint of blood, to all ruin but the mere loss of worthless life, amounted to three hundred and nine thousand.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

The eastern moiety of the county is more purely Conservative than the western; there is, or was, a taint of Peelism in the latter;

Having shot Stilt Man in the taint with a bazooka -- I'Â've come to realize every character is somebodyÂ's favorite character.

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

It is as though our very touch bore infection: things which in themselves are good and beautiful are corrupted by our handling of them.

Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.