Vicious

Famous quotes containing the word vicious:

“You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer ... something old-adamish, incompatible to the “ordinary world.””
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“Still, vicious or virtuous,
Love suits most of us.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years. Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.”
—Virginia Thrall Smith (1836–1903)