Dirty Quotes - Page 22

• Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

  John Ruskin

  Drawing, Soldier, Black

  John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.288

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• What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Home, Army, People

  Statement to the Senate, 1814.

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• I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, Fall, Love You

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• Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

  John Muir

  Animal, Men, Cleanliness

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, Canongate Books

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• Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Association

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• If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

  John Waters

  People, Trying, Hollywood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Boys, Parent

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• I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Selfish, Talking

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• [London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Sight, Sea, White

  V.S. Pritchett (2009). “Mr. Beluncle: A Novel”, p.13, Modern Library

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• The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

  Randall Jarrell

  Past, Voice, Southern

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

  Frank Herbert

  People, Leave Me Alone, Letters

  "Introduction" to "New World or No World" by Frank Herbert, 1970.

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• The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.

  Maxim Gorky

  Morning, Children, Flower

  Maxim Gorky (2017). “The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC

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• Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.

  Lipman Bers

  Mathematics, Tricks, Mathematical

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• Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.

  Rex Harrison

  Challenges, Lows, Irresistible

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• Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Work, Manners, Young

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Stories, Ifs

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• Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Night, Sight

  Ogden Nash (1936). “The bad parents' garden of verse”

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• We got the bubble headed bleached blonde comes on at five, She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye, It's interesting when people die give us dirty laundry...

  Don Henley

  Song, Eye, People

  "Dirty Laundry". Song by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, October 12, 1982.

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• Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.

  Mark Helprin

  Heaven, Black, Kind

  Mark Helprin (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.252, Pan Macmillan

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• So what you are doing, be aware, observe it, and then go on meditating. Soon you will begin to feel the change. Now there is no possessiveness in relationship. By and by, possessiveness disappears. And when possessiveness is not there, relationship has a beauty of its own. When possessiveness is there, everything becomes dirty, ugly, inhuman.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Goes On, Ugly

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• If you've got a bloodstain on your T-shirt, maybe dirty laundry isn't your biggest problem.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Problem, T Shirt, Laundry

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• On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Men, Thinking

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• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Kids, Adults

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.127, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

  James Altucher

  Pigs, Mud

  "JAMES ALTUCHER: How To Deal With Crappy People" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. June 16, 2011.

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• We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its thoughts need cleansing and ordering as much as our bodies. While few of us would consider eating dinner on yesterday's dirty dishes, we think nothing of tackling our problems with yesterdays cluttered minds.... The purpose to any meditation technique is to move beyond the normal contents of our consciousness, empty your mind of its habitual chatter, and concentrate your attention for the purpose of experiencing a higher state

  Anodea Judith

  Moving, Thinking, Clothes

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