Vicious Quotes
364 Vicious quotes by 319 unique authors
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Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a…
— Evgeny Morozov
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The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.
— Margaret Atwood
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Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is…
— Terry Pratchett
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As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Who knew an elf queen could be so vicious!
— Meg Cabot
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Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They…
— Neil Gaiman
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Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing…
— Farley Mowat
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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older,…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than…
— James Kahn
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He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The…
— Joanne Harris
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He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.
— Isabel Allende
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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your…
— Fay Weldon
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It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at…
— Ilona Andrews
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The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like…
— Grace Metalious
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Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious.…
— Francine Pascal
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It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a…
— Sharon Shinn
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How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then,…
— Ann Brashares
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These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping…
— John Fowles
Who Wrote These Vicious Quotes
319 authors contributed a total of 364 Vicious Quotes, led by these top contributors: