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Sordid Quotes

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty Picture Quote #1

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being Picture Quote #1

My brother went on to have a long and sordid career Picture Quote #1

I have a sordid past Picture Quote #1

Love can be sordid only if you work at it Picture Quote #1

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest Picture Quote #1

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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God Picture Quote #1

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy Picture Quote #1

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living Picture Quote #1

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view Picture Quote #1

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end Picture Quote #1

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be Picture Quote #1

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Promiscuous... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation Picture Quote #1

So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It’s as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant Picture Quote #1

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear Picture Quote #1

There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money Picture Quote #1

The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent Picture Quote #1

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness Picture Quote #1

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The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels Picture Quote #1

Never mind. Point being that you don’t have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don’t have to think of us aas real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We’re no more real than money Picture Quote #1

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice Picture Quote #1

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater Picture Quote #1

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves Picture Quote #1

This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish Picture Quote #1

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A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low Picture Quote #1

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man’s own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him Picture Quote #1

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid Picture Quote #1

The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them Picture Quote #1

I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night Picture Quote #1

England has the most sordid literary scene I’ve ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy’s writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They’re all scratching each other’s backs Picture Quote #1

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The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty (Sordid Quotes) Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being (Sordid Quotes) My brother went on to have a long and sordid career (Sordid Quotes) I have a sordid past (Sordid Quotes) Love can be sordid only if you work at it (Sordid Quotes) Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest (Sordid Quotes) There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God (Sordid Quotes) Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy (Sordid Quotes) General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living (Sordid Quotes) The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view (Sordid Quotes) Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end (Sordid Quotes) Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be (Sordid Quotes) Promiscuous... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation (Sordid Quotes) So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It’s as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant (Sordid Quotes) It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear (Sordid Quotes) There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money (Sordid Quotes) The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent (Sordid Quotes) In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness (Sordid Quotes) The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels (Sordid Quotes) Never mind. Point being that you don’t have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don’t have to think of us aas real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We’re no more real than money (Sordid Quotes) The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice (Sordid Quotes) If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater (Sordid Quotes) I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves (Sordid Quotes) This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish (Sordid Quotes) A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low (Sordid Quotes) Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man’s own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him (Sordid Quotes) Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid (Sordid Quotes) The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them (Sordid Quotes) I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night (Sordid Quotes) England has the most sordid literary scene I’ve ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy’s writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They’re all scratching each other’s backs (Sordid Quotes)

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