Filth Quotes
112 quotes by 102 authors
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
— Teresa of Avila
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
— Tony Abbott
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There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
— Winston Churchill
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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing…
— Thomas Brooks
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Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do,…
— George Carlin
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Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given…
— Origen
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Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
— Mao Zedong
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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall...
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been…
— Anna Sewell
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Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth
— John of Salisbury
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency…
— John of Damascus
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,…
— Gautama Buddha
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You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you
— C. Delores Tucker
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Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything,…
— Peter Damian
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How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs,…
— Jean Dubuffet
Who Wrote These Filth Quotes
102 authors contributed a total of 112 Filth Quotes, led by these top contributors: