Tawdriness Quotes & Sayings

I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute. — Alexandre Dumas

War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement. — Graeme Smith

When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved. — P. J. O'Rourke

Don't animate drawings, animate feelings. — Ollie Johnston

My Pakistanis, you have not left me alone and I promise, I will never leave you alone in sha Allah — Imran Khan

Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone.
Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.

Lord Arrlo Salkeld — J.P. Ashman

Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence. — William Allen White

They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot. — Howard Tayler

Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they
took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough. — Larry Osborne

Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek. — Edith Hamilton

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices. — Dhani Harrison

India and its peoples; not the British India of cantonments and Clubs, or the artificial world of hill stations and horse shows, but that other India: that mixture of glamour and tawdriness, viciousness and nobility. A land full of gods and gold and famine. Ugly as a rotting corpse and beautiful beyond belief ... — M.M. Kaye

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last. — Harriet Martineau