Chicanery Quote by Ouida Download Open image “To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.” — Ouida ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chicanery Innocence Kind Vice
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women… — Ouida Copy Share Image
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. — Ouida Copy Share Image
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot… — E. W. Scripps Copy Share Image
Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market? — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“It takes our breath away when we see how many cards some people have got up their sleeves. Using deceptive or manipulative tactics, they… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated… — William Whipple Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is essentially sending… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred.… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
![“[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is essentially sending the government into shutdown and maybe default. But they won the majority of seats there because of various kinds of chicanery. They got a minority…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e83/noam-chomsky-42_agendas_the-republican-party-for-example-they-do_2928358.jpg)
