Famous quotes containing the word foul:
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“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 (18651939)
“Ignominy in ransom and free pardon
Are of two houses; lawful mercy
Is nothing kin to foul redemption.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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