Dirty Work Quotes - Page 2

• Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

  John Ruskin

  Dirty, Pay, Clean

  'Sesame and Lilies' (1865) lecture 1 'Of Kings' Treasuries' 30, note

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• If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Dirty, Men, Lawyer

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.168

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• I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

  Ted Nugent

  Dirty, Naughty, Done

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

  Russell Baker

  Dirty, Government, Political

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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