Squalid Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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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
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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It…
— Evelyn Underhill
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What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress…
— Learned Hand
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War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.
— Winston Churchill
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Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding…
— Mark Twain
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship…
— Harold Pinter
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Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall…
— Henry George
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never…
— Charles Dickens
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England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
— Hanif Kureishi
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But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,…
— Thomas Ligotti
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The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.
— Basil Bunting
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Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a…
— Roland Barthes
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Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
— Brennan Manning
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Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
— Tom Baker
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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome…
— Rudyard Kipling
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I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
— George Orwell
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The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of…
— Peter Bergen
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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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