Foul

Famous quotes containing the word foul:

    “Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
    Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
    —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)

    “Ignominy in ransom and free pardon
    Are of two houses; lawful mercy
    Is nothing kin to foul redemption.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)