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Dirty Little Quotes

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.
- Kathryn Bigelow

One can only pity those dirty little minds that see obscenity in the crotch of every tree.
- Gerry Burnie

That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.
- David Campbell

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have nver met with such a thing as a trifle yet.
- Wilkie Collins

D.H. Lawrence had the impression that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a 'dirty little secret', a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production
- Gilles Deleuze

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.
- Ina Garten

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
- William Gilbert

I don't know why I feel so compelled to tell Olivia all my dirty little secrets, but I do
- M Leighton

You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard.
- Richard Matheson

I may have let you have your naughty little way with me for the past couple of months, but that doesn't mean I'm going to allow you to keep treating me like some dirty little boy toy. If you want to live with me then I expect you to put a ring on my finger.
- R L Mathewson

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
- Dee Dee Myers

Some of this story is completely true. And some of it isn't. Like truth, evil comes in all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively sweet. Sometimes it comes with a heavy price. While most people don't invite evil into their lives, the dirty little secret is that an invitation isn't necessary. Locked doors don't matter. Neither do fancy security systems. Evil is kind of amazing when you think about it. She knows how to get inside.
- Gregg Olsen

This was the first time I thought of S that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself then. For once, heaven had sent me Beauty in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down. How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?
- Roman Payne

But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.
- Julie Anne Peters

This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.
- Olive Schreiner

I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.
- Jerry Stahl

This is Hollywood's dirty little secret. It's not about making movies. Are you kidding? Forget that shit about "the Dream Factory." It's about manufacturing frustration.
- Jerry Stahl

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
- Andrew Sullivan

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