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Quotes About Stain

The US threatened to withhold badly needed loans to the Jewish state, an unconscionable move that is a permanent stain on the record of Bush.
~ Terry James
Actually, observed Lucette, wiping the long envelope which a drop of soda had stained,- Bergson is only for very young people or very unhappy people, such as this available rousse.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You cannot stain a black coat
~ Charles Dickens
The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.
~ Charles Dickens
So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain.
~ Charles Dickens
Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.
~ James Patterson
occasional puke puddle.
~ James Patterson
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
~ Thomas Fuller
Sin is not only a defection—but a pollution. It is to the soul as rust is to gold, as a stain to beauty. It makes the soul red with guilt, and black with filth. Sin in Scripture is compared to a "menstruous cloth," and to a "plague-sore.
~ Thomas Watson
No, wait. Skip the gravy. I don't want to get gravy on my tank top. Gravy's hard to get out of sequins.
~ Janet Evanovich
Pinkerton's Champion Stain Remover and Paragon Detergent
~ Oscar Wilde
The blood-stain has been much admired by tourists and others, and cannot be removed. That is all nonsense, cried Washington Otis; Pinkerton's Champion Stain Remover and Paragon Detergent will clean it up in no time, and before the terrified housekeeper could interfere, he had fallen upon his knees, and was rapidly scouring the floor with a small stick of what looked like a black cosmetic. In a few moments no trace of the blood-stain could be seen.
~ Oscar Wilde
The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.
~ Jasper Fforde
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
~ William Shakespeare
But we should be cautious when we spot comfort creeping into the historic memory: if it climbs the wall like a stain, it could be a sign that the truth is being drowned.
~ Clive James
Sun stain on blanket on my feet. Pleasant then clammy. I smell.
~ Unknown
Shame, however, was what I felt seeping through me as though it stained my white bones black.
~ Lian Hearn
I scrubbed with cold water for several minutes without really removing the stain. The paper towels kept falling apart, leaving dozens of small wet crumbs of paper all over the shirt without affecting the stain. This coffee was amazing stuff; perhaps it was part paint or fabric dye—that would explain the taste.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
~ Unknown
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If caught wearing white and you stain, stand and spread out your skirt, let the boys read into it shapes like blots of ink.
~ Unknown
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
~ Hosea Ballou
You're just so lucky blood's so hard to get out of the carpet.
~ Lois Greiman