Vicious Quotes

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

Patriotism, Virtue

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Good, Year

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra

Rock, Ugly, Desperate

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
Avril Lavigne

Age, Hell, Around

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers

Love, Marriage, Good

Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Thomas Paine

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
James T. Walsh

Children, Innocent, Duty

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Justice, Long, Enough

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
Samuel Butler

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry A. Kissinger

Politics, Small, University

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

Good, Reading, Fill

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.
Lord Byron

Life, Opinion, Virtue

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
Sid Vicious

Love, Consider, Mum

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
Desmond Tutu

Here, Labor, Africa

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
Bob Ney

Society, Nothing, Nation

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
Newt Gingrich

Nature, Country, Negative

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Xun Zi

Character, Mean, Others

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
Paula Abdul

Lie, Matter, Lies

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
Michael Badnarik

Money, Pay, Market

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
Michael Caine

Great, Trying, Last

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.
Howard Stern

Angry, Against, Kid

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Charles Krauthammer

Enemy, Violence, Themselves

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
Erica Jong

Forgotten, Writers, Reviews

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.
Allen West

Best, Care, Philosophy

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
Nigella Lawson

Through, Read, Head

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
Richard Burton

Justice, May, Please

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.
Charlize Theron

Life, Before, Her

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 Byron

Life, Opinion, Virtue

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.
Dave Matthews

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Thomas Malthus

Before, Effort, Means

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