True blue will never stain. [ Proverb ]

Let my honour be without stain. [ Motto ]

A common blot is held no stain. [ Proverb ]

Here eglantine embalm'd the air,
Hawthorne and hazel mingled there;
The primrose pale, and violet flower.
Found in each cliff a narrow bower;
Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side.
Emblems of punishment and pride,
Group'd their dark hues with every stain
The weather-beaten crags retain. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun. [ Shakespeare ]

How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air.
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain
Breaks the serene heaven:
In full-orb'd glory yonder moon divine
Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Beneath her steady ray
The desert circle spreads,
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
How beautiful is night! [ Southey ]

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [ Goethe ]

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. [ Proverb ]

All the water in the sea cannot wash out this stain. [ Proverb ]

That chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound. [ Burke ]

There is no reputation so clear but a slanderer may stain it. [ Proverb ]

O, let not woman's weapons, waterdrops, stain my man's cheeks! [ William Shakespeare ]

Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Whose wit in the combat, gentle as bright, never carried a heart-stain away on its blade. [ Moore ]

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? [ Sir P. Sidney ]

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. [ Auerbach ]

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life. [ Renan ]

Not a flower but shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, of His unrivaled pencil. He inspires their balmy odors, and imparts their hues. [ Cowper ]

As flowers never put on their best clothes for Sunday, but wear their spotless raiment and exhale their odor every day, so let your righteous life, free from stain, ever give forth the fragrance of the love of God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hysterical passion which forces unbidden sighs and tears; it falls upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on white paper, which is not the less a stain that it carries no meaning with it. [ Sir W. Scott ]