Famous quotes containing the word vicious:
“Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures, than of the deep erudition and knowledge which a book of this cast, if read over as it should be, would infallibly impart.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious lifeand if Virtue is not its own reward I dont know any other stipend annexed to it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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