Sordid Quotes

90 quotes by 78 authors

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the… — Coleman Dowell
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd… — W. E. B. Du Bois
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf
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
For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid… — Walter Mason Camp
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the… — Ruth Bernhard
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves… — Oscar Wilde
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.… — Mark Twain
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without… — Luigi Pirandello
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage… — Margaret Atwood
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. — John Calvin
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery… — Okakura Kakuzo
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in… — Thomas Merton
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that… — Jack Kerouac
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that… — Rudolf Rocker
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick… — Russell Baker
The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. — Norman Rockwell
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid… — Tom Lehrer

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