Top 34 Dingy Quotes
#1. Bel dames spent most of their time running after criminals in dingy, unfiltered cities, making enemies with other bel dames whose notes they stole, girlfriends they fucked, and sons they killed.
Kameron Hurley
#2. Maybe a little break," she muttered. "Just maybe." She'd lucked out with Mason Tobias. He might've been a little dingy,
J.D. Robb
#3. Stopping before them, St. Vincent confided, I would have found you sooner, but I was attacked by a swarm of dingy-dippers.
Lisa Kleypas
#4. He danced along the dingy days, and this bequest of wings was but a book.
Emily Dickinson
#5. She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)
Annette Meyers
#6. Thank you, Department Stores, for the flickering fluorescent lights, dingy yellow wall paint, and adjustable mirrors in the dressing room where I try on bathing suits. You are why I drink.
Jen Hatmaker
#7. Arthur Clennam came to a squeezed house, with a ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor Square.
Charles Dickens
#8. There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.
Jilly Cooper
#9. It was my first visit to the scene of the crime
a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#10. Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
Albert Camus
#11. They looked at their reflections in the mirror, she in her torn skirt and dingy bra, he naked, his penis flaccid, his face covered with bright white shaving cream. Megan shook her head. "What a vision we'll be.
Anonymous
#12. Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.
Murray Gell-Mann
#13. Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
William Ralph Inge
#14. I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.
Nicholson Baker
#15. I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.
Pink
#16. I felt sick. Buying Kisten's and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I'd rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.
Kim Harrison
#17. One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, I will always be here.
Simone De Beauvoir
#18. A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.
Robert McKee
#19. Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.
Christopher Isherwood
#20. I was like Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley on Ed Sullivan, I tells ya, punished for the crime of being sexy. (him on the telly , me in a dingy alley ... any analogy will break down under scrutiny.)
Russell Brand
#21. Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
John Hughes
#22. By the end, she cleaned the house so much that she had dust in her eyes and her throat, her knees were scrapped a little and her back ached while she suffered from weary arms. But after everything was done, the once dark, dingy and dirty house was shining bright and looked so alive!
Prerna Varma
#23. Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace.
Patrick McGrath
#24. My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
V.S. Naipaul
#25. The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses
George Orwell
#26. A few whiskies in dull bars, a visit or tow to the Empire promenade, a little whoring on the Q.T.; the sort of dingy, drabby fornications that you can imagine happening between Egyptian mummies after the museum is closed for the night.
George Orwell
#27. It was Saturday night at the Tune-In Cafe and the only person inside its dingy walls who wasn't drunk was seriously starting to wish that she were.
Sandra Marton
#28. I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
John Dyer
#29. That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.
Robert M. Pirsig
#30. It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.
Lady Gregory
#32. Everton are a bigger club than Liverpool. Everywhere you go on Merseyside you bump into Everton supporters.
Graeme Souness
#33. He's got all the dangly man parts, but your father's a weirdo drama queen.
Alex A. King
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