A deformed body may have a beautiful soul. [ Proverb ]

And by his side rode loathsome gluttony.
Deformed creature, on a filthy swine;
His belly was up-blown with luxury,
And eke with fatness swollen were his eyne. [ Spenser ]

Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing. [ Bacon ]

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; none can be called deformed but the unkind. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation. [ Sterne ]

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last; and careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, have written strange defeatures in my face! [ William Shakespeare ]

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. [ Joseph Addison ]

If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]