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Dirty Quotes

Lines that admit the messier, less polished truth.

"Dirty" here mostly means honest rather than clean: a wry joke about disgusting hands, a candid admission that ordinary fund investors often significantly underperform the funds they're actually invested in, and a young writer's ambition to produce a great, unvarnished American novel. For more sharp-edged wit, see Dirt.

I'm so pumped about joining 'Y&R' - I watch it all the time and can't wait to get in there and get my hands dirty!

Quotes by Justin Hartley

Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them.

Quotes by Josh Fox

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

Quotes by Jorge Masvidal

I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

Quotes by John Waters

I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.

Quotes by Joe Russo

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

Quotes by Joe Pantoliano

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

Quotes by Jim Fowler

I'm not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.

Quotes by Jenna Fischer

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Quotes by Jeffrey Wright

My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'

Quotes by Jared Kushner

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.

Quotes by Jan C. Ting

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Quotes by James Cagney

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Quotes by James Chiles

I've never been a dirty comic.

Quotes by Iliza Shlesinger

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

Quotes by Hunter Tylo

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

Quotes by Helen Reddy

One of the first things the PT government did when it took office in 2003, after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the presidency, was to create a 'dirty list' of hundreds of companies and individual employers who were investigated...

Quotes by Greg Grandin

'Flash' has a family drama element, 'Arrow' has a epic saga/crime element, 'Supergirl' has a young-woman-in-the-city and a workplace element, and 'Legends' is like the Dirty Dozen teaming up.

Quotes by Greg Berlanti

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that...

Quotes by Graham Joyce

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

George Orwell

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Dirty quotes page about?
It gathers quotes where 'dirty' means honest rather than clean, pointing at costly secrets, unpolished ambitions, and wry humor.
Why do people search for dirty quotes in this sense?
Beyond the literal meaning, 'dirty' often signals something hidden or unglamorous being admitted openly, which readers find refreshingly candid.
Is there a quote about money or investing?
Yes, one line calls out a quietly costly truth: everyday fund investors often do worse than the fund or the market itself.
Does this page include anything about writing or ambition?
One entry describes a young writer's goal of producing a great, unpolished American novel, treating 'dirty' as raw and unfiltered rather than negative.
What related pages should I look at?
See Dirt for a closely related theme, or Dirty Work for more on hard, unglamorous effort.

The word carries different weights across these lines, from playful to financially blunt, but always points at what's usually left unsaid. Continue with Dirtiest or Dirty Work.