Filth

Famous quotes containing the word filth:

    “The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “I myself saw furious with blood
    Neoptolemus, at his side the black Atridae,
    Hecuba and the hundred daughters, Priam
    Cut down, his filth drenching the holy fires.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
    Carrying the world’s weight of the world’s filth
    And the filth in the heart of Man—
    Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
    than that of the Sun.”
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)