blot quotes

I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

- Charlotte Bronte« 
  Jane Eyre ch.17.

This world's no blot for us Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

- Robert Browning
  Men and Women,'Fra Lippo Lippi'.

Ev'n copious Dryden, wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot.

- Alexander Pope
  Imitations of Horace, bk.2, epistle1, l.280^1.

   Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King, dedication, l.24^7.

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Merlin andVivien', l.667^9.