“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer.
"You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"”
"Sadie Thompson" in Altogether - Rain (1934)
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W. Somerset Maugham 158
British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965Related quotes
“You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.”
“When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine.
Pigs in Heaven”
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”
Initially attributed to Cyrus S. Ching in Time, Vol. 56 (1950), p. 21.
Misattributed
Variant: Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Source: The Eleventh Commandment (1962), Chapter 17 (p. 157)
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.”
Criticizing Hillary Clinton's health-care plan as being "eerily reminiscent" of the plan she advocated as First Lady, 11 October 2007 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-campaign10-2008sep10,0,311675.story
2000s, 2007
“No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!”
Source: The Black Cauldron