Filth Quotes
112 Filth quotes by 100 unique authors
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It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
— Jocelyn Murray
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A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters,…
— Elif Safak
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Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon…
— William Hazlitt
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Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the…
— Mark Bittman
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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 body,…
— Ray Davies
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Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
— Tom Lehrer
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I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk…
— John Howard Lawson
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You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you,…
— Hermann Hesse
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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
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Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin
— Thomas Aquinas
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I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
— E. M. Forster
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll…
— Stephen Fry
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The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
— Plautus
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
— Salman Rushdie
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There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what…
— Stephen Sondheim
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But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his…
— John Steinbeck
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The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth…
— Ben Elton
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Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Syn may be too much of a gentleman to hit you, but I’m not. I’m not only ashamed to call you human, I’m completely disgusted…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable…
— Rachel Caine
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Will: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Filth Quotes
100 authors contributed a total of 112 Filth Quotes, led by these top contributors: