8The wicked strut about [in pompous self-importance] on…

Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face…

— Kevin DeYoung

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my…

— David Brainerd

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

— Rumi

The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep…

— Peter Straub

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

— Immanuel Kant

“And Tietjens, who hated no man, in face of this simple-minded and agreeable schoolboy type of fellow, fell to wondering why it was that…

— Ford Madox Ford

“good alone Is good without a name, vileness is so”

— William Shakespeare

“She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.”

— Bryant McGill

“There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

— Bertolt Brecht

Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him;…

— Jane Porter

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

— Euripides

“I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink from any…

— Marcel Proust