"Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;……" — William Shakespeare
"Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare has 3,182 quotes on this site.
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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More Filth Quotes
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one of 112 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
— Tony Abbott
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There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
— Winston Churchill
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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power…
— Thomas Brooks
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Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is…
— George Carlin
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Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In…
— Origen
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Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
— Mao Zedong
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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick;…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died…
— Anna Sewell
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Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth
— John of Salisbury
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