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Quotes About Grossness

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.
~ William Hazlitt
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true; For envied wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own.
~ Alexander Pope
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
~ William Shakespeare
I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.
~ Ken Marino
We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and some of these other shows are more racist. Or '16 and Pregnant.' Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious?
~ Chelsea Handler
If one would praise the Almighty, one must then revel in His works, and take them whole, adore their very grossness, savor the oozing quiddity of that slime of which He seems to be inordinately fond. Love is not nice. God's love assuredly is not; and human love, its copy, must not presume to be so.
~ Eric Frank Russell
[Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dullness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness yet to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher.
~ George Meredith
As much as any other producer in the modern movie age, Harvey Weinstein has been a subject of media fascination. The grossness, the bullying, the unbridled exercising of personal power, the craven appetites, the awards and his good taste in films fed that fascination.
~ Michael Wolff
Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.
~ Theophrastus
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed perfection.
~ Walt Whitman
Everything in ...nature, is descended out that which is eternal, and stands as a. ..visible outbirth of it, so when we know how to separate out the grossness, death, and darkness. ..from it, we find. ..it in its eternal state.
~ William Law
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
~ William Hazlitt
De ce trebuie s? le toler?m noi calibanitatea lor? De ce este nevoie ca orice persoan? vital?, creatoare ?i generoas? s? fie martirizat? de grosol?nia din jur?
~ John Fowles