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Flesh Quotes - Page 12

Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones.

Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.472, Simon and Schuster

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.486, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.78, Hamilton Books

I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.136, Anchor

Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

Peter Ackroyd (2000). “London: The Biography”, Doubleday

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

"Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.22, Penguin

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.369