Filth Quotes - Page 4

• [Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Trainspotting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

  William Boyd

  Half, Hours, Pleasant

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.

  Jennifer Worth

  People, Grace, Ignorant

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• Just take it from me," Donovan said. "Stay well clear of the warden. Some here think he's the devil. I don't, I don't believe in that religious talk, but I know evil when I see it. He's something rotten they dragged from the bowels of the earth, something they patched together from darkness and filth. He'll be the death of us all, every single one of us here in Furnace. Only question is when." "I know one thing," I added. "The warden certainly brings out peoples dramatic sides." Zee and Donovan both laughed through their noses.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.89, Faber & Faber

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• Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Samwise Gamgee, Let Him Go, Return Of The King

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• So as you are, in whatever conditions you are, in whatever situations you are, whatever may be the surroundings, like a dirty mire full of creatures and filth, you can become like lotuses. When you become like lotuses, all that is filth, all that is horrible can become fragrant. And this is what we have to achieve.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Dirty

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• Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency to descend, and flows with great readiness. It is this the Holy Scripture has in view when it says, "And the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit.

  John of Damascus

  Beautiful, Should Have, Four Elements

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• Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Men, Ties

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• You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

  C. Delores Tucker

  Hip Hop, Language

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• In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur and not fox innards? In the name of what I don't know. Don't dirt, trash and filth, which are man's companions during his whole lifetime, deserve to be dearer to him and isn't it serving him well to remind him of their beauty?

  Jean Dubuffet

  Men, Names, Doe

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.423

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• I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Past, Men, Thinking

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.488, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Lying, Luxury

  "Letter To American Workers". Pravda, No. 178, August 22, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 28, p. 62 - 75, www.marxists.org.

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• Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

  Max Lucado

  Men, Giving, Arrogance

  Max Lucado (2008). “The Applause of Heaven”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.

  Adolf Hitler

  Cutting, Light, Holocaust

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• Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, America, Violence

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• A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  True Friend, Heart, Compassion

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• Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.

  Elif Safak

  Real, Heart, Water

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• Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

  William Hazlitt

  Nice, Noses, Common

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...”, p.294

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• Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body, anyway? I suppose you've got to abuse your body to understand it. If you're not prepared to humiliate yourself in order to give somebody else a moment's pleasure, I don't believe that you've actually lived.

  Ray Davies

  Believe, Order, People

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.214, The Overlook Press

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• Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

  Tom Lehrer

  Sex, Mind, Beholder

  Song: Smut, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.

  John Howard Lawson

  Struggle, Men, Feet

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