Top 25 Foul Quotes of 41

Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Air, Loud, Foul

Geoffrey Chaucer (1895). “The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His Works”

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

William Shakespeare

Important Macbeth, Foul, Darkness In Macbeth

'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 38

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

John Lithgow

Earth, Nests, Foul

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

William Shakespeare

Wind, Foul Language, Foul

William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.4275, BookCaps Study Guides

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

Tom Metzger

Foul, Foreign Policy, Jew

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Robert Southwell

Chance, Foul, Turns

'Times go by Turns' (1595).

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

William Shakespeare

Gossip, Foul, Rings

William Shakespeare (2014). “Macbeth”, Simon and Schuster

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

Thomas A. Edison

Men, Wonderful, Foul

Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

William Shakespeare

Winning, Foul, Seems

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

William Shakespeare

Modesty, Foul, Clearness

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.179

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

William Hazlitt

Foul, Nations

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

Joe Torre

Golf, Games, Foul

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Arthur Hailey

Humor, President, Foul

Arthur Hailey (2014). “Wheels”, p.5, Open Road Media

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

Charles Frazier

Character, Cold Mountain, Foul

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Arsene Wenger

Player, Sometimes, Foul