Dirty Word

Famous quotes containing the words dirty and/or word:

“The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
“Jug Jug” to dirty ears.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)