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sordid
«Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends»
Author: Charles Sprague
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
dividend, dividends, incarnation, sordid, the Incarnation
«Let us clear any romantic notion of daredeviltry from our minds. It is nothing less than a sordid crime of violence inspired by vast greed.»
«I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast!»
Author: George Canning
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| Keywords:
outcast, reprobate, reprobates, sixpence, sordid, spiritless, unfeeling, vengeance
«I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.»
Author: Robert Graves
| Keywords:
abroad, attempts, bend, classics, grammar, grammars, honest woman, horror, Rules of, sordid, The Classics, the English, The Rules
«I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.»
Author: Sting
| Keywords:
admirable, baron, Barons, devoid, devoid of, monotonous, robber, sordid, succession
«It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
casual, detests, Old Enough, sordid, unspeakable
«I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.'»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
covetous, pence, pounds, sordid, William Lowndes
«It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence»
«To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
middle class, obviously, respectability, sordid
«If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
hideous, sordid, splendid, utmost