Best Sordid Quotations
90 Sordid quotes by 78 unique authors
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It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has…
— Dr. Seuss
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Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far…
— Mark Twain
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I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel…
— Robert Graves
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It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
— Niger Innis
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Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.
— Shawn Amos
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and…
— Henry Louis Mencken
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Sordid practice engine overheated there's no way to cool turned up on your side.
— Quicksand
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Im pretty bored with people sitting in a room talking about what theyre going to do, yeah. Id like to be Han Solo. Id like…
— Elizabeth Mitchell
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