dirty quotes

He is not a genuine foreign-grown savage; he is the ordinary home-made article.Dirty, ugly, disagreeableto all the senses, in body a common creature of the common streets, only in soul a Heathen. Homely filth begrimes him, homely parasites devour him, homely sores are in him, homely rags are on him: native ignorance, the growth of English soil and climate, sinks his immortal nature lower than the beasts that perish.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Of  Jo. Bleak House, ch.47.

   A few professional alienists understood his importance, but to most of the public he appeared as some kind of German sexologist, an exponent of free love who used big words to talk about dirty things. At least a decade would have to pass before Freud would have his revenge and seehisideas beginto destroysex in America forever.

-Doctorow, E(dgar) L(awrence)
  Ragtime, ch.5.

An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:öI am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.

-Fleming, Marjory
  'Journal 3' in F Sidgwick (ed)  The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).

Tryas one may to stress the cultural and historical role of the place†it still conveys one overwhelmingly powerful image to your average Englishman: the dirty weekend.

-Smith, Godfrey
  Of Brighton.The English Companion.

Okie use'ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch.Okie means you're scum. Don'mean nothing itself, it's the way they say it.

-Steinbeck,John Ernest
  The Grapes ofWrath, ch.18.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing inittositdownonor to eat: it was a hobbit-hole,and that means comfort.

-Tolkien,J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel)
  The Hobbit, ch.1.

Your daughters, I hope, will be married to Americans, and not in this dirty, despicable little island.

-Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
  Letter to Lady Ossory,11 Dec. InW S Lewis (ed) Selected Letters of HoraceWalpole (1973).

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