The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our…

The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth And the filth in the heart of…

— Anonymous

“of all things the perfection is to imitate the face of mankind”

— Nicholas Hilliard

“If it's by an American it's certain to be filth. That's all they write about.”

— Roald Dahl

If you think I wear the cloak of filth, then let me tell you baby, I wear it real good.

— Diamanda Galas

“It's not a fear that has a name, it's just a dark aura on the world, and it echoes back at Toni with all…

— Anonymous

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

— Jairam Ramesh

“that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor.”

— Lawrence Block

Between urine and filth we are born.

— Saint Augustine

Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

— Debbie Reynolds

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think…

— Rachilde

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

— Dennis Potter

Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a…

— Ray Davies