Vicious Quotes

Vicious Quotes & Sayings

These vicious quotes and vicious sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. A man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies, because if you indulge this passion on some occasions, it will rise of itself in others; if you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you. - Plutarch [Ploutarchos]


Asperse: Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. (The Devil's Dictionary) - Ambrose Bierce


University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger


Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put His violent Engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas


Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety. - Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher


It is vicious to give in to our desires, but not to have any desires at all is impossible for our weak nature. - Peter Abelard


Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it? - Ayn Rand


To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him, And make all clean and plant himself afresh. - Lord Alfred Tennyson


Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout. - Benjamin Franklin