Foul Quotes - Page 3

• Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Weather

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• In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

  John Selden

  Fall, Cutting, Thinking

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• If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

  Luis Bunuel

  Queens, Weather, Smoking

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• The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, People, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

  Juliet Marillier

  Light, Darkness, Pathways

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.471, Macmillan

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• Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?

  Francine Rivers

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall. 'I mean after that open and revolting foul —' 'Jordan, I'm warning you —' 'All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindor still in possession.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Taken, Mean

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• Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Technique, Shirts, Blades

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Real, Eye, Men

  Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

  Walt Whitman

  Sex

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• I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

  Michael Snow

  People, Giving, Mouths

  Source: www.realityravings.com

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• Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Names, Yesterday

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1955-1962”, Library of America

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• But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Balls

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• In thy foul throat thou liest.

  William Shakespeare

  Throat

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII”, p.24

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• But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.

  John Denham

  Brother, Kings, Son

  John Denham, “On Mr. John Fletcher's Works”

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• Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Pain, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, University of Virginia Press

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• Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.

  Wes Fesler

  Honesty, Lying, Air

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• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Stars, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• So fair and foul a day i had not seen.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Fairs

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• We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

  Charles Frazier

  Character, Cold Mountain, Mark

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, May, Source

  "The White Company".

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• . . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Iron, Gold

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Hate, Book, Expression

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• If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Art, Successful

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• Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Men, Dust

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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