Sordid

Famous quotes containing the word sordid:

“To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Oh, has the foul atmosphere of foreign lands extinguished all your self-respect? Do you come back sordid and sycophantic, and the slave of opinions you would once have utterly detested?”
—Augusta Evans (1835–1909)