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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 wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Quotes by Dan Reynolds

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

Quotes by Dan Stevens

Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can't vote.

Quotes by Corrine Brown

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Quotes by Clint Eastwood

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

Quotes by Clint Walker

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Quotes by Ciaran Hinds

I like to get my hands dirty. Talk is cheap.

Quotes by Chen Guangbiao

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Quotes by Charlton Heston

Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

Quotes by Charli XCX

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

Quotes by Bruce Dickinson

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Quotes by Brigitte Bardot

Music as a business is a dirty thing.

Quotes by Brian Reitzell

'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.

Quotes by Blase J. Cupich

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

Quotes by Billy Wilder

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

Quotes by Betty White

My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal.

Quotes by Autre Ne Veut

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

Quotes by Ashwin Sanghi

While I was shooting for 'NH10,' my hair had to look dirty in the film. To improve the texture... quality of hair, I had to use a lot of conditioner.

Quotes by Anushka Sharma

On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with...

Quotes by Annie Jacobsen

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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.