Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

William Graham Sumner

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

William Hazlitt

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

Laurence Sterne

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Cassandra Clare

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Oscar Wilde

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Marcus Martial

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Mitch Corwin

Grocery stores have historically been fairly boring and not a fun place to shop, but now Whole Foods turned that image on its side.

Regina Rogers

It gets boring a lot of times. When I'm in the game, it's not as boring.

Will Self

Things are only boring if you are boring.

Markus Persson

Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

Lillie White

I rearrange furniture at home all the time, at least three or four times a year. It gets boring if you don't.

Yorg Kerasiotis

Incredible Consequence. We all love so many different kinds of music that it would be boring to have just one style.

Shelly King

Take parking monitors for instance. How boring would that be unless you had a friend to do it with you?

Ken Parker

It keeps the days moving quickly, ... After 25 years, I can say there really is never a boring moment.

Salman Rushdie

Cruelty is not a literary value.

Jennifer Campbell

The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening.

Georgia Witkin

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

Thomas Buxton

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel

Malala Yousafzai

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Alan Furst

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.