Vile Quotes
198 Vile quotes by 154 unique authors
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And…
— William Shakespeare
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned…
— Carson McCullers
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I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of…
— Tucker Max
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...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently…
— Edwin A. Abbott
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We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies…
— Fernando Pessoa
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No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am…
— William Shakespeare
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Democracy is the most vile form of government.
— James Madison
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I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true;…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is…
— Wilhelm Reich
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To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each…
— Algernon Blackwood
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man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our…
— Muriel Barbery
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Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest…
— Robert Schumann
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Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but…
— Donald Barthelme
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listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering…
— Jonathan Stroud
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The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the…
— Wilfred Owen
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Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness.…
— Sarah MacLean
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,…
— Baroness Orczy
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Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Dani," Decker said firmly. "Trust me, this is not a dream." "Why is it you men always say trust me before spitting out something completely…
— Lynsay Sands
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Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.
— Georgette Heyer
Who Wrote These Vile Quotes
154 authors contributed a total of 198 Vile Quotes, led by these top contributors: