Profligacy Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
— William Hazlitt
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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self...
— Robin Morgan
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one…
— Francesco Guicciardini
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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second…
— Robin Morgan
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Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to…
— Sinclair Lewis
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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in…
— Caitlin Moran
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About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity,…
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may…
— John Jay
Who Wrote These Profligacy Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Profligacy Quotes as follows: