On his films: "Bastards, most of them, conceived in contempt of life and spewn out onto screens across the world with noxious ballyhoo; saying nothing, contemptuous of the truth, sullen, and lecherous."
- Sterling HaydenAnti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
- William Howard TaftCircumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
- David Trimble