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)

“The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)