Defile Quotes
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Nor one feeling of vengeance presumed to defile The cause, or the men, or the Emerald Isle.
— 1795 Erin, stanza 3.
To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
Robert Louis Stevenson— Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
A scrimmage in a Border Station A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride, Shot like a rabbit in a ride!
rudyard kipling— Arithmetic on the Frontier, Stanza 3.
People who don't believe in government are likely to defile government.
bill moyers— Commenting on the Bush Administration and the Harding Administration in an Interview on Fresh Air (5 November 2008)
Arm of Erin, prove strong, but be gentle as brave, And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save; Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile The cause or the men of the Emerald Isle.
— William Drennan, Erin.
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
john maynard keynes— The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter IV, Section I (1919, pg. 77).
