Crime Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

— Seneca the Younger

“Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think not that…

— Sir Thomas Browne

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Wrinkled women lifting their faces, chasing their youth. Fat men sucking in bellies. Poor folks putting on airs. Sinners acting like saints. All of…

— Philip Gulley

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least…

— Lord Chesterfield

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of…

— Arsene Houssaye

“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Sharply the menacing wind sweeps over The bending poplars, newly bare, And the dark ribbons of the chimneys Veer downward; flicked by whips of…

— George Orwell

“ ...the near dark streets where Friday night's business began to accomplish itself, strolling couples, arm in arm, girls bright as just pricked flowers,…

— Anonymous

Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

— William Shakespeare

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

— Charles Churchill