52 Unsavory Quotes

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Famous Unsavory Quotes

Badness is only spoiled goodness. — C. S. Lewis

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves. — William Shakespeare

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. — Bertrand Russell

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor

Bad company ruins good morals. - Bible

Bad company ruins good morals. — Bible

Bad company ruins good morals. - Paul the Apostle

Bad company ruins good morals. — Paul the Apostle

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. — Charles Dickens

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite. — William Shakespeare

Often a noble face hides filthy ways. — Euripides

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. — Isaac Barrow

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. — Agnes Repplier

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. - Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. — Samuel Richardson

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against. — Diana Vreeland

You've got to take the bitter with the sour. — Samuel Goldwyn

Short Unsavory Quotes

  • You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. — Shimon Peres
  • It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character. — Albert Einstein
  • I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. — Yitzhak Rabin
  • Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. — Will Arnett
  • I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. — Michael Rooker
  • One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos. — Sayings

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More Unsavory Quotes

Love is a word that has been hijacked by greeting card companies, cult leaders, sentimentalists, pop singers, false prophets, romcoms, McDonald’s, and a million other unsavory types, who transform the most incredible thing that humans can experience into an inflatable, gaudy imitation of itself that they use for their selfish desires and nefarious marketing campaigns. These b*stards have made the highest and most intense experience accessible to humans almost impossible to talk about without feeling embarrassed. — Duncan Trussell

Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. — Hillary Clinton

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation. — Joyce Meyer

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. — Abraham Maslow

The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug. — Edward S. Herman

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look. — Christopher Walken

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read. — Philip Massinger

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. — Lee R. Raymond

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. — Thomas Perry

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality. — Carl Jung

Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges. — Ted Nugent

Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. — Mark Twain

Not all the lyrics are topical - sometimes that is just the setting. They are all pretty much interpersonal. For some reason it's easier to write about people who are unsavory. It's like sometimes when you peel back an onion, there is mold inside. — Tim Presley

Now, here we are, and we have Obama in office, and he has drawn down forces in Iraq - which is a plan that was on Bush's desk the day that he left office. The forces in Afghanistan, he's going to draw down, too. But at the same time, Obama has also expanded a lot of the more unsavory, covert aspects of the wars, with the drone strikes and some of the night-raid missions. — Jeremy Scahill

Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism, solidarity and logic. And even domestically, President [Vladin]Putin is slowly, step-by-step, restoring many important Soviet achievements that were torpedoed by a nitwit, and one gangster - [Mikhail] Gorbachev and [Boris] Yeltsin. — Andre Vltchek

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that. — Carrie Brownstein

If I was a supervillain, I'd create this universal, cosmic rule where every time an old, shitty, right-wing white man says something unsavory about a young woman, he would just get the clap immediately. — Jack Antonoff

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain. — Theodore Dreiser

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. — John Shelton Reed

If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it. — Michael Pollan

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points. — Michael Rooker

SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure. — Kevin J. Anderson

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