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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… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid… — Evelyn Underhill
- What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government… — 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… — 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.… — Harold Pinter
- Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering… — Henry George
- Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,… — 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… — 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:… — Roland Barthes