Vicious

Famous quotes containing the word vicious:

“My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life—and if Virtue is not its own reward I don’t know any other stipend annexed to it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)