Quotes About Vile

And Adelmo that day quoted another lofty authority, the doctor of Aquino, when he said that divine things should be expounded more properly in figures of vile bodies than of noble bodies.

Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single, fateful word. They are les miserables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.

Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.

Lies are vile things, with a horrible life of their own. They contaminate the truth that surrounds them.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

ON ANGER: "It is the base and vile bramble, the fruit of the earth's curse, that tears and rends what is next to it." Thomas Adams

Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock? She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free. I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious.

That I make love with you for a diversion? You vile, insulting, disgusting son of a bitch." She raised her own fists, and might have used them, but Travis stepped in and gripped Brian by the shirt. His voice was quiet, almost matter-of-fact. "I ought to take you apart.

If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my exile for the vile parody of home.

And I also knew that the child, my child, knew he was looking, enjoyed the lechery of his look and was putting on a show of gambol and glee, the vile and beloved slut

You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.

He's got gas," Aaron explained, his voice muffled by the hand still over his face. "It happens when he eats stuff he's not supposed to." "It's vile," Camael said, glaring at the dog. "Something should be done so that it never happens again.

It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime eccentricity of the natural scene. In Sirene he lives.

what is a pleasant voice if the soul be vile?

Come in!' cried the voice, rather a pleasant voice; but what is a pleasant voice if the soul be vile?

Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so. How could their father, said she, so fool them with his lies and nonsense?

War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of it... as it stands now it's the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous.

But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think of great things, princes will more rarely carry out fine actions, and the people will continue to be vile, corrupt, and unhappy.

The brains of the undead do nothing for me. The taste is vile, nothing like the juicy, enticing brains of the living.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves...

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.