Burden Quote by Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes…

— Samuel Johnson

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be…

— Samuel Johnson

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick…

— Samuel Johnson

Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go…

— John Owen

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has…

— Wendell Berry

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

— John Hancock

The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of…

— Henry George

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison…

— Mark Twain

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and…

— Edward Zwick

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

— Mark Twain

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become…

— Mario Vargas Llosa