Best Sordid Quotes
90 Sordid quotes by 78 unique authors
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is…
— William Wordsworth
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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of…
— Charles Dickens
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Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win…
— D. H. Lawrence
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My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of…
— Ginger Rogers
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Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.
— Vincent Starrett
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But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear…
— Margaret Atwood
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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to…
— Walter Scott
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For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole…
— Pope Pius XI
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing,…
— Edna Ferber
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You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could…
— Peter De Vries
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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
— Moliere
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New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This…
— William Jennings Bryan
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I have a sordid past.
— Dar Williams
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and…
— Mae Whitman
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My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.
— Darrell Issa
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The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the…
— Oscar Wilde
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I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take…
— Lord Chesterfield
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal,…
— Joseph Hall
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Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the…
— George Farquhar
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