Vicious

Famous quotes containing the word vicious:

“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)

“The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or has visited a menagerie or the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education. “A boy,” says Plato, “is the most vicious of all beasts;” and in the same spirit the old English poet Gascoigne says, “A boy is better unborn than untaught.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)