Foul Quotes

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

I've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!

Jealous?...Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.

An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.

Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.

When you're hot, it's fair, when you're not, it's foul.

Think of the moment you count most foul in your life; conjure it, supplicate, pray to it; your face is bleak, you retract, you dare not remember it.

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.

Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.