Vile

Famous quotes containing the word vile:

“What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“God clothed himself in vile man’s flesh, that so
He might be weak enough to suffer woe.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)

“The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)