Disreputable Quotes

19 Disreputable quotes by 18 unique authors

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger. — Albert Payson Terhune
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not… — H. L. Mencken
Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-) — Larry Sanger
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock… — Mark Twain
The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country. — Khem Veasna
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly… — James A. Michener
Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them… — Xenophanes
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. — Jonathan Lethem
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create… — James K. Polk
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. — John Updike
For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer. — Paul Theroux
I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition? — Jasper Fforde
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane;… — Jasper Fforde
According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone… — Alain de Botton
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clarke

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