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Quotes About Taint

Everyone felt guilty, even those who were innocent. That was the problem with dishonesty, its taint spread wide. It bred distrust.
~ Storm Constantine
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
~ Samuel Butler
Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The song seraphically freeOf taint of personality.
~ George Meredith
It's like an effort is being made to taint my relationship with Sanjay and make it ugly. When it's clean, pure and based on trust.
~ Rhea Pillai
Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.
~ Greg Kinnear
Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.
~ Greg Kinnear
Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.
~ Kenneth Fisher
They had seen how the taint of being pro-German had weakened the Irish-American movement during the war.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
Seeing it makes a magnificent abstract concept real, and reality tends to taint even the most wonderful ideas [...] - Caradoc
~ P.C. Cast
And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
~ William Shakespeare
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
~ William Shakespeare
But no perfection is so absolute That some inpurity doth not pollute.
~ William Shakespeare
For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.
~ Holly Black
Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Some people poison everything they touch.
~ Unknown
The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.
~ Eric Schlosser
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
~ Meister Eckhart
I wear a taint of rationing, that's all. I have the thready, ashamed look of a reduced person who assumes there is a worse reduction to come.
~ Unknown
If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.
~ Leviticus 19:7