"Vicious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... multiply and thicken on them; they are involved, through a labyrinth of confused detail, in an industry without limit, and without direction; and, in conclusion, the whole of their work becomes feeble, vicious, and insecure. ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke
... all men are vicious, selfish and immoral is projecting pernicious mind stuff into space, which is as dangerous to the peace of the community ...
— The Heart of the New Thought • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... a continuous change of amusements, each noisier and duller than the one before. Now in the theatre, now in the open, they played a stupid but obscene vaudeville piece, and vicious topical songs were sung (a thunder of applause); an animated chansonnette-singer screeched and pulled about with her naked, excessively whitened shoulders, and winked with her exaggeratedly painted eyes; a woman acrobat, raising ...
— The Created Legend • Feodor Sologub
... head. "I don't know; sometimes I give up on the human race. Manning at least has a little culture in him—but he's more vicious than he seems, nevertheless. If ...
— Warlord of Kor • Terry Gene Carr
... and next my marriage with my own cousin, Miss Betty Lanshaw. The placing was a great affair, for I was put in by the patron, and the people knew nothing of me whatsoever. They were really mad and vicious, insomuch that there was obliged to be a guard of soldiers to protect the presbytery. Dirt was flung upon us as we passed, and the finger of scorn held out to me. But I endured it with a resigned spirit, ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
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