Famous quotes containing the word corrupt:
“You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate
As reek athrotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my airI banish you!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
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