filth quotes

   Cum itaque membris his vilissimis, qu× pro summ× turpitudinis exercitio pudenda vocantur, nec proprium sustinent nomen, me divina gratia mundavit potius quam privavit, quid aliud egit quam ad puritatem munditi× conservandam sordida removit et vitia. When divine grace cleansed rather than deprived me of those most vile members which from their grossly depraved activity are called 'pudenda' ['shameful'], having no proper name of their own, what else did it do but remove filth and foulness so as to preserve unblemished purity?

- Peter Abelard
c.1135  Of his castration. Second letter to He  lo|«  se.

Los servidores acumulan los privilegios de la miseria†conservan los instrumentos de la venganza porque van acumulando en sus manos a  speras y verrugosas esa otra mitad de sus patrones, la mitad in u til, descartada, lo sucio y lo feo que ellos†les han ido entregando con el insulto de cada enagua gastada que les regalan. Servants accumulate the privileges of misery† They save up the instruments of vengeance because their coarse warty hands collect, bit by bit, that other side of their employersthe useless, discarded side, the filth and the sordidness that†they've been putting into their servants' hands with the insult of each shabby skirt they gave them.

- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  El obsceno pa  jaro de la noche, ch.4 (translated as The Obscene Bird of Night,1973).

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life.Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, couragethey exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  A Passage to India, ch.14.

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

-John Osborne
  On the opening of the US musical Hair, in Time magazine.

For your names Of whores and murderers, they proceed from you, As if a man should spit against the wind; The filth returns in's face.

-John Webster
  TheWhite Devil, act 3, sc.2.