Foul Quotes - Page 8

• The vulnerability undid him even as the strength brought him pride. And the whole of her brought him love beyond the measuring of it. Of all he'd craved in his life, all he'd dreamed of having, all he'd fought to gain by fair means or foul, he'd never imagined having such such as she as his own. Never imagined himself the man he'd come to be because she was.

  Nora Roberts

  Mean, Pride, Men

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• Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Knowing, Shame, Break

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.170, Delacorte Press

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• God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled. Where ominous music comes on-screen so you can't possibly mistake him. Where someone asks you to choose between playing with the beautiful princess in the fragrant garden and being eaten by the hideous monster in the foul-smelling pit. Not exactly a difficult one, now is it? Not something that you would agonize over, or that would make you lose a night's sleep?

  Marian Keyes

  Beautiful, Mistake, Hero

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• I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.

  Osamu Dazai

  Summer, Dream, Recovery

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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• Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

  Nancy Springer

  Thinking, Names, Enough

  Nancy Springer (2008). “The Case of the Left-Handed Lady: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.92, Penguin

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• Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Smell, Sometimes

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.395, Bantam

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• It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dawn, Ends, Fairs

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.454, Bantam

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• I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Telling The Truth, Mood

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• His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Speech, Speak

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes”, p.37

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• She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

  Alice Hoffman

  Running, Home, Mean

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.43, Penguin

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• Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

  F. Sionil José

  Suicide, Past, Life Is

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Wonderful

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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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• A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

  Gena Showalter

  Mean, Saving, Want

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• I am black,” she said, and a shudder rippled through me. “I am foul with a thousand years of demon curses. Don’t cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won’t sully her to further your high ideas.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Ideas, House

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

  Walt Whitman

  Sex

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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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• Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Gold, Use

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will”, p.184, Classic Books Company

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• The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Government, Turkeys

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• It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Loyal, Cash

  Song: A Queens Story, Album: Life Is Good, 2012

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• I got the wild style, always been a foul child,
  My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.

  Big L

  Children, Rap, Gun

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• ...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul,
  Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style.
  Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes,
  Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.

  Nas

  Rap, Blow, Clothes

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