Fair Is Foul And Foul Is Fair Quotes

#1. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

John Maynard Keynes

#2. Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

William Shakespeare

#3. Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

William Shakespeare

#4. A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. So fair and foul a day i had not seen.

William Shakespeare

#6. He actually knows what has to be done and how to do it, and he's going right ahead and doing it, without holding a dozen conferences and round-table discussions and giving everybody a fair and equal chance to foul things up for him. You know as well as I do that that's undemocratic.

H. Beam Piper

#7. First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?

Joe Torre

#8. When you're hot, it's fair, when you're not, it's foul.

Harold Reynolds

#9. No day's too fair to die on, nor too foul either.

Victor Milan

#10. He is fair of face and foul of heart.

George R R Martin

#11. Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Robert Southwell

#12. You women are all the same, if bed's all right,
You think everything else can go to the wind.
But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights,
Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

Euripides

#13. No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Ambrose Bierce

#15. It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. This world of sense, built by the imagination
how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

J.G. Holland

#17. 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

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

Charles Frazier

#19. O heresy in fair, fit for these days,
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

William Shakespeare

#20. It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

Sallust

#21. Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#22. I just told you that I used to be a thief, a beggar, and a whore. Is it really fair for you to cry foul over my question? - Bones

Jeaniene Frost