Foul Quotes - Page 13

• Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span Where weeping Virtue parts with man; Where love without lust dwells, and bends What way we please without self-ends. An age of mysteries! which he Must live that would God's face see Which angels guard, and with it play, Angels! which foul men drive away.

  Henry Vaughan

  Angel, Men, Self

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.241

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• I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.

  Henry Kirke White

  Dog, Yes I Can, Mouths

  Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1822). “The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge”, p.73

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• When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.

  Alexander Blok

  Blood, Land, Rivers

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• Before
  We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we
  Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us,
  But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not
  Enter their profane temples; and for me
  To hope my passage to eternity
  Can be made easy, till I have shook off
  The burthen of my sins in free confession,
  Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them,
  Is against reason.

  Philip Massinger

  Hands, Feet, Sorrow

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.262

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• The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mind, Receiving, May

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.333

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• You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Evil, Cockroaches

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• Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Buckets, Pool, Fountain

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

  Robin Morgan

  Weather, Irony, Checks

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.334, Open Road Media

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• There was another time when Mike was really foul mood and we had to make a pit stop so he could use a porta potty. Mike went to use the porta potty and we were waiting inside the RV. It was joe’s idea, but we all got out and started to rock the thing back and forth. We didn’t mean to, but we ended up tipping the porta potty over while Mike was in it! Then we attacked him with air freshener

  Chester Bennington

  Mean, Rocks, Air

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• I've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Interesting, Mouths, Found

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• Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.

  Robert Browning

  Fate, Bears, Earth

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.61, Wildside Press LLC

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• Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Sleep, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1876). “The Carlyle Anthology”, p.253

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• God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weather, Gold, Lace

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Depression, Believe, Mean

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Strong, Taken, Mean

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• It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

  Moby

  Long, Interesting, Apathy

  Journal entry at moby.com, January 20, 2003.

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• You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Cheating

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• We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.

  John Whisenant

  Rejection, Shooting, Assistants

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• They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough. It doesn’t die; you’re the the one that dies. It’s like the ocean: if you’re no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph

  William Faulkner

  Beach, Ocean, Names

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• Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
  Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
  Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
  And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Age, Half

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.963, Oxford University Press

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• A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

  Vance Havner

  Brave, Storm, Height

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• John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul

  Alan Green

  Football, Commentators

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• Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

  Jose Saramago

  Blessed, Night, Protect

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• Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Philosophy, Heart, May

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.461, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Gutters, Speak

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