Quotes About Seamy

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

Lady Warminster represented to a high degree that characteristic of her own generation that everything may be said, though nothing indecorous discussed openly. Layer upon layer of wrapping, box after box revealing in the Chinese manner yet another box, must conceal all doubtful secrets; only the discipline of infinite obliquity made it lawful to examine the seamy side of life. If these mysteries were observed everything might be contemplated: however unsavoury: however unspeakable.

The flâneur is not attracted to the city's official realities but to its dark seamy corners, its neglected populations—an unofficial reality behind the façade of bourgeois life that the photographer "apprehends," as a detective apprehends a criminal.

If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.

From all old seamy throats of elders, musty books, I've salvaged not a word.