Foul Quotes

251 Foul quotes by 198 unique authors

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window… — John Cheever
Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes… — Yvon Chouinard
I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul." — Lefty Gomez
I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble — Jeff Van Gundy
There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me… — Erik Larson
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother,… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets. — William Shakespeare
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy,… — Donald Berwick
It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest. — John Heywood
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. — Jean Anouilh
Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't… — Sue Wicks
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes… — Elizabeth I
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. — William Shakespeare
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed… — William Butler Yeats
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's… — John Milton
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we… — Henry David Thoreau
Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they… — Warren Moon
Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things. — Marvin J. Ashton
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for… — Horace
The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still… — Duke Snider
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at… — George Plimpton
Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent… — Samuel Beckett
There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers. — Melvin Belli
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. — Christopher Marlowe

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