43 quotes found
“But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!”
“A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!”
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered...it is not merely the vices that are let lo...”
“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
“The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.”
“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of...”
“What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.”
“What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!”
“The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.”
“Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.”
“As for an authentic villain the real thing the absolute the artist one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”
“It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody.”
“It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures but a compromise can usually be found.”
“What maintains one vice would bring up two children.”
“Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.”
“When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.”
“One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.”
“Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.”
“He who hates vice hates men.”
“Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar and the drunkard who's the benefactor of...”
