Dirtiness

According to Chesterton, dirtiness is merely a kind of ‘discomfort’ and therefore ranks as self-mortification. ❋ Unknown (1937)

Unfortunately, the discomfort of dirtiness is chiefly suffered by other people. ❋ Unknown (1937)

This dirtiness is certainly one of the greatest drawbacks to human felicity in this beautiful country, degrading the noble edifices dedicated to the worship of God, destroying the beautiful works destined for the benefit of his creatures. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

In other words, I get something of a linkage between sex/risk/"dirtiness" - I know, words are only words, but I wonder if it would be helpful for her to focus on her words/attitudes, not just the facts re: the prevalance of HPV - might help with the blame she seems to be attaching to herself and the condition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think I speak for everyone when I say “Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (t surprising)” Ignoring Hing Won’s dirtiness is something I’ve been doing for quite awhile. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here, curiously enough, the Socialist and the sentimental democratic Catholic of the type of Chesterton sometimes join hands; both will tell you that dirtiness is healthy and ‘natural’ and cleanliness is a mere fad or at best a luxury. [ ❋ Unknown (1937)

And he asked himself with horror: what is this impulse towards dirtiness, which is in the majority of human beings -- this desire to besmirch the purity of themselves and others, -- these swinish souls, who take a delight in rolling in filth, and are happy when not one inch of their skins is left clean! ... ❋ Romain Rolland (1905)

Our analysis shows that the biggest factor affecting a car's "dirtiness" is its fuel efficiency -- or lack thereof. ❋ Hannah Elliott (2010)

Mr Hindley deems this assertion a gross libel, showing that the "dirtiness" of Jemmy was inevitable, owing to his officiating in every department as pressman, compositor, devil, &c., and being handy at all points. ❋ Steve (2009)

The kind of dirtiness Arc seeks to avoid is verbose, repetitive source code. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His skin is black -- no doubt about that, but then it is _intensely_ black and glossy, suggestive of black satin, and having no savour of that dirtiness which is inseparably connected with whitey-brown. ❋ Francis B. Pearson (1859)

The evidence of this "dirtiness" has been out there for a long time. ❋ Black Swan Capital (2010)

I thought it captured the LACK of emotion and character of pulp, but it does escape the use of such dirtiness as using the word ************. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among the dirtiness, there were flowers woven throughout her long, strawberry-blonde curls that framed her freckled face. ❋ Thomas Martin (2012)

Saxon, honest to God, you could never guess a hundredth part of its dirtiness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I strongly believe that if we took the mystery and “dirtiness” out of sex, (this idea perpetrated by too many religions) that we would have less sexual perversion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But he'll just hurt them some for their dirtiness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But in some i detected some snobbery [he constantly emphasised the filthiness and dirtiness that he percieved in the working class]. ❋ Unknown (2010)