Foul

Famous quotes containing the word foul:

“Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a foul odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 10:1.

“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as
your pearl in your foul oyster.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)