Vicious famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
-- Alexander Pope -
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
-- Alison Bechdel -
It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.
-- Bob Gill -
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
-- Camille Paglia -
Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
-- Eugene Levy -
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 -
It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)
-- Jaclyn Moriarty -
I monitor haters' comments. I am aware of vicious rumors, but I am not afraid anymore.
-- Jay Park -
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation,
-- Jeff Weiner -
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
-- John Marsden -
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
-- John Milton -
Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.
-- John William Fletcher -
Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious
-- Kathryn Stockett -
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.
-- Margaret Atwood -
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 -
Payne Stewart was a vicious competitor. He only played to win, ... Only God can change hearts.
-- Paul Azinger -
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
-- Philip Larkin -
Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
-- Pope Pius XI -
The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.
-- Porphyry -
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.
-- Robin Morgan -
Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
-- Robin Williams -
People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.
-- Rutina Wesley -
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
-- Samuel Johnson -
I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
-- Sid Vicious -
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
-- Smedley Butler -
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
-- Xunzi -
There is no one more vicious on their own than conservative women on conservative women.
-- Nicolle Wallace -
For all you know, the way I act could very well be an act. Or maybe it isn't. I could be the most dangerous, most vicious one of the bunch, because no one takes me seriously!
-- Stevie Richards -
No one girl or woman deserves to feel like a vicious attack was her fault.
-- Sufe Bradshaw -
Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.
-- James Toback