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Deformity Quotes

Art is significant deformity.

Quoted in VirginiaWoolf, Roger Fry (1940)

There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.82, William Butler Yeats

Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.

William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.212, Cambridge University Press

Thou lump of foul deformity!

William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.161, Oxford University Press, USA

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.

Clare B. Dunkle (2006). “The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy”, p.110, Macmillan