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If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted — T. S. Eliot

Love can be sordid only if you work at it. — Brooke McEldowney

The to-dos were sordid rather than exciting, perhaps because nearly everybody was approaching middle age. — James Purdy

Even out of bad things, good things can happen. Even things that are sordid or painful can lead to things that are beautiful. — Laura Lee Guhrke

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty. — Publilius Syrus

The soft airs of spring blew through the sketch into that sordid chamber, and for the beating of a pulse you were in touch with the eternal — W. Somerset Maugham

The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. — Norman Rockwell

Run. Flee. Fuck off. Vanish from my presence and take the foul stench of your sordid secret with you. — St John Morris

The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. — Vincent Starrett

To be honest, I consider my very sordid past a blessing; if only because it made my wonderful present - and my bright future - possible! — Karen E. Quinones Miller

Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low. — Orison Swett Marden

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived. — Charles W. Chesnutt

I didn't blame him. God, I wouldn't have blamed Bones if he'd duct-taped a vibrator to me and just took care of the whole sordid nightmare that way — Jeaniene Frost

Only the superfluous is sordid — Boris Pasternak

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end. — Agnes Repplier

Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us. — Shawn Amos

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest. — Moliere

Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid. — Kurt Vonnegut

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being. — Fernando Pessoa

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful. — Theodore Roosevelt

I know what you want to hear, doctor, but I'm sorry, you're not going to pry some sordid confession out of me. — Barbara Mujica

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid. — Rutherford B. Hayes

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel. — Charles R. Schwab

Once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh yes," said Nanny Piggins. "I can regale people with anecdotes from my sordid past and think at the same time. — R.A. Spratt

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder'. — Geoffrey Willans

At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice. — Alexandre Dumas

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him. — Theophrastus

Stone dead, said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid. — J.K. Rowling

I have a sordid past. — Dar Williams

My brother went on to have a long and sordid career. — Darrell Issa

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality. — Philip Neri

the sordid necessity of living for others."9 — Satyajit Das

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. — John Calvin

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming. — Niger Innis

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight. — John Calvin

Your sordid life is your sordid life. You shouldn't live it if you don't like it. — Alice Sebold

Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well.15 — Winston S. Churchill

I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins — Oscar Wilde

It's a sordid life, but I'm used to it. — Raymond Chandler

Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty. — Matt Roper