Squalid Quotes

31 quotes by 28 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
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
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
War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid. — Winston Churchill
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
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
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
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
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
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
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. — Basil Bunting
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
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. — Brennan Manning
Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid. — Tom Baker
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
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
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
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
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
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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