Top 100 Quotes About Filth
#1. But she knew that her father's presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth - did that make it less filthy? No. it condoned.
Harper Lee
#2. But destiny will be accomplished, and the best man will hold his ground while the undeserving one will vanish into his back-alley for ever - his filthy back-alley, his beloved back-alley, where he is at home and where he will sink in filth and stench at his own free will with enjoyment.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. There are precious lessons deep in the stench of failure and the filth of selfish choices.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. In a blacked-out house, stripped of all comforts, it's easy to turn your anger outward, to attack this city he's lying at the center of, with its filth and its pollution and its oppression, but really, New York is the only thing that's never abandoned him.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#5. You threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face.
R.K. Narayan
#6. It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
Jocelyn Murray
#7. Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.
Elif Shafak
#8. If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
William Throsby Bridges
#9. Isaac had spent so much of the past year with his head down, focused on the filth around him, that he'd forgotten the beauty of his world.
Susan Fanetti
#10. At times it is so enjoyable to mire your neighbor into the filth you already got stuck in long ago!
Igor Eliseev
#11. Every one of these things I said was a knife at myself. Everything I had ever secretly held against my brother was coming out: how ugly I was and what filth I was discovering in the depths of my own impure psychologies (214).
Jack Kerouac
#12. Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
Mao Zedong
#13. I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.
Mark Ruffalo
#14. I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.
James McAvoy
#15. It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.
Debbie Reynolds
#17. I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
Tony Abbott
#18. Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth
John Of Salisbury
#19. If it's by an American it's certain to be filth. That's all they write about.
Roald Dahl
#20. There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.
Joseph Campbell
#21. It might have looked beautiful, had she not known what corruption and filth dwelt within it. And what monstrosity ruled over it all.
Sarah J. Maas
#22. Rome was a flea market of borrowed gods and conquered peoples, a bargain basement on two floors, earth and heaven, a mass of filth convoluted in a triple not as in an intestinal obstruction
Boris Pasternak
#23. I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.
Anthony Bourdain
#24. In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#25. To the outside, I'm filth now. I'll never be allowed to return to the life I knew. No one ever does.
Abi Ketner
#26. Clouds shed the agony of the sky and rain concludes it by covering us in filth. What do you think about the puddles of mud and traffic jams? I so hate rain.
Pushpa Rana
#27. Hesitation is a cruel taskmaster; it breeds weakness the same way filth breeds germs.
Ray Dacolias
#28. How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.
Pope Benedict XVI
#29. We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins.
Vladimir Nabokov
#30. ... the world revels in its own filth and will make a laughing stock out of anyone who tries to clean it up
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#32. There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.
John Osborne
#35. The beauty in this world was hidden by filth and lies while evil was painted in beauty and smiles.
Pepper Winters
#36. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.
Hermann Hesse
#37. When you live in filth, your mind takes in filth and you feel nothing.
LeAlan Jones
#38. I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.
John Howard Lawson
#39. I think that all filth is local ... and that a joke isn't a joke unless it's at somebody's expense
Christopher Hitchens
#40. One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. If the newspapers reported the truth, if they wrote about the mud and filth and the body parts littering the ground and how young men look old before their time, would we still be here?
M.K. Tod
#42. When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#43. He was naked as a jaybird and covered in filth. He moved towards her with the same eerie grace that he had scaled the side of the barn, stopping to sniff the wind and look suspiciously around...His eyes were not yellow now; they were as black as his hair.
Shirley A. Martin
#44. Filth!' Ignatious shouted, spewing wet popcorn over rows. 'How dare she pretend to be a virgin. Look at her degenerate face. Rape her!
John Kennedy Toole
#45. The lesser of the evils now before us is to abandon all moral censorship. We have either sunk beneath or risen above it. If we do, there will be reams of filth. But we need not read it. Nor, probably, will the fashion last for ever. Four-letter words may soon be as dated as antimacassars.
C.S. Lewis
#46. I am the shape you made me.
Filth teaches filth.
Sophokles
#47. A people who live in filth will feel like filth - if we are ever going to rise above our opinions of ourselves, we are going to need to be clean.
Brandon Sanderson
#48. Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. He was the devil in a Sunday hat; he dressed and acted like a civil man, but inside he was just hatred and filth. Then, I guess after what I was planning to do to save a life, I wasn't too dissimilar to him.
Mercy Cortez
#50. Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.
Jeanette Winterson
#51. I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,
That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
Walt Whitman
#52. Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Plautus
#54. You're supposed to be made in His image, and yet you're all such ungrateful pieces of filth. You only bow your heads when you want something.
Ron Marz
#56. Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?
June Jordan
#57. Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.
Edith Wharton
#58. The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.
George Herbert
#59. The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#60. Until you realize what they are. They're just ways to lose the game. You lose the game, and what have you lost? You've lost the game. Corion had told me about the game. How many of my thoughts were his? How much of my philosophy was filth from that old man's fingers?
Mark Lawrence
#61. We should look for the light, the good, the grace of Heaven wherever it might be, even admist the filth we are so quick to judge beneath us. We cannot assume we are the arbiters of righteousness. We don't shape Heaven; Heaven shapes us. Nor do we shape Hell.
Sunshine Somerville
#62. A pregnant woman is a frightful object. A new-born child is loathsome. A deathbed rarely makes so horrible an impression as childbirth, that terrible symphony of screams and filth and blood.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#63. Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you your license?" Jack said.
"Exactly, only without the filth and peasants," Aphrodite said.
Kristin Cast
#64. It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#65. There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness.
Anthony Burgess
#66. Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
Winston Churchill
#67. We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#68. Everything smells like mildew, and the grim commitment to filth that can only be cultivated by post-adolescent boys.
Brenna Yovanoff
#69. If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.
Jairam Ramesh
#70. He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with such sonorous force, such fluty fioriture that one could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss, the loss, the loss.
Vladimir Nabokov
#71. Lazy in everything," said Ross, "but the search for excuses. Like two old pigs in their sty and as slow to move from their own patch of filth." Prudie
Winston Graham
#72. In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
Emile Zola
#73. It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
James Baldwin
#74. Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. Every civilization when it loses its inner vision
and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness,
more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort.
An Augean stable of metallic filth.
D.H. Lawrence
#76. Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
Sydney J. Harris
#77. So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.
Benjamin Thompson
#78. I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood ... I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.
Mickey Rooney
#79. She was like a dream I'd given up long ago. A different life, a better me. A chance to wash the filth away.
Chanel Cleeton
#80. am in so much trouble! I'm ruined! I'm just a human being - fallible and stammering. My lips are encrusted with filth; and I live among people just like me. But here I am, and I've seen with my very own eyes none other than the King, the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies.
Anonymous
#81. British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
Salman Rushdie
#82. Her strength and spirit were both dripping away, leaving her empty inside. She could feel her filth and hunger, and her body was protesting violently about her long period of tension, and drug and alcohol abuse.
Martin Millar
#83. By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#84. Sirius - it's me ... it's Peter ... your friend ... you wouldn't ... "
Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled.
"There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them," said Black.
J.K. Rowling
#85. They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like the living dead.
Maggie LaCroix
#86. All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth, I'm glad to say, is in
The mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man ...
Tom Lehrer
#87. Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices ... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth ...
Peter Damian
#88. They cast injustice and filth at the solitary one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. It shouldn't have surprised her. Didn't she know better than almost anyone what sort of filth humans were capable of? But it did, every time, a sort of weary, miserable surprise that someone out there had found a new way to create pain. She
Stacia Kane
#90. I am filthy. So is Doris, but we'll bathe and change clothes and be clean. Your filth is within you. If it were gone, you'd collapse.
Gene Wolfe
#91. As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
Stephen Fry
#92. I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth.
Angus T. Jones
#93. America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
Vladimir Lenin
#94. A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#95. If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#96. So I lay her to sleep
and wipe off the milk
and step into the next room
for some innocent filth
in the middle of which
her scream jolts me up
And I transform breast once more
between lover
and love.
Hollie McNish
#97. Don't threaten me, you piece of filth.
M.J. Carter
#98. Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
Max Lucado
#99. Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.
Adolf Hitler
#100. There was so much filth to clean up; so many broken pieces to fix; so many errors to correct. Every morning she left her house she let out a quiet sigh, as if in one breath she could will away detritus of the previous day.
--Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak
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