Top 100 Vile Quotes
#2. However vile the abuse they receive, media people must remember this is part of the price of getting a public voice. Stay grateful. Don't kick down, kick up. Criticise power rather than proles.
Rob Manuel
#3. The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.
Edward Dahlberg
#4. So, in other words, we tore our world apart to get rid of these gods. And they were very bad gods, right?' I say, just to be clear. 'Not just messing around and having funsies with their adoring followers but truly wicked and vile?
Liz De Jager
#5. Shakespeare himself spoke of Heaven using wars as a punishment for perversities, lusts and passive barbarianism: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to calm these vile offenses, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Fulton J. Sheen
#6. while they
discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of
any man
hearty and clean,
Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and
none shall be
less familiar than the rest.
Walt Whitman
#7. So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you'd better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#9. All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Adam Smith
#10. It would be foolish, I think, to judge a whole people by the actions of a few vile souls. Foolish as well as misguiding.
Scott Oden
#11. I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend's voice arises: and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.
Laini Taylor
#14. It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
Russell Baker
#15. What's green and smells like pork?" Relieved that he's engaging, I have to bite my lip to keep from grinning. "What?" "Kermit's finger." "Eew." I laugh as I bat his arm. "That is vile.
Kristen Callihan
#16. O, vile! These tauntauns have an awful stench outside, But nothing did I know of wretchedness, Disgusting rot, and sick'ning filth till this New smell hath made attack upon my nose.
Ian Doescher
#17. In the folklore of the British Isles, a bodach is a vile beast that slithers down chimneys at night and carries off children who misbehave. Rather like Inland Revenue agents.
Dean Koontz
#18. A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.
Robin Bertram
#19. Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
Robert A. Heinlein
#20. For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#21. Chapin was secured in the backseat - the motor-pool cars had rings bolted to the floor for just that reason - and he sat in his durance vile mumbling, ranting, threatening, and overusing the same naughty word.
Jeff Lindsay
#22. What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#23. Is that a page from the dastardly villain's diary?" Maldynado asked. "One carelessly dropped that conveniently reveals the secret to destroying these vile artifacts?" "It's an invoice." "Villains get bills?
Lindsay Buroker
#24. I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.
Demosthenes
#25. Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#26. I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
Winston Churchill
#27. In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Robert Burns
#28. GET OUT! GET OUT OF MY CLASSROOM YOU VILE LITTLE GIRL! AND TAKE THAT DISGUSTING CREATURE WITH YOU!" snarled the teacher.
David Walliams
#29. Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
#30. What a rush you're in to show me the last dregs of your vile soul!
Giacomo Puccini
#31. Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God ... The sinner and God are at opposite poles of the moral universe.
Billy Graham
#32. It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
Harland Williams
#33. Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.
Bertrand Russell
#34. The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.
Rush Limbaugh
#35. There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
Agathon
#36. the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal, against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence
Ayn Rand
#37. The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.
Dennis Prager
#38. Christianity is strange: it requires human beings to recognize that they are vile and even abominable.
Blaise Pascal
#39. What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.
Richard Griffiths
#40. Roast beef and plum pudding are also held in superstitious veneration, and port and sherry maintain their grounds as the only true English wines; all others being considered vile, outlandish beverages.
Washington Irving
#41. Is it physical
To walk unbraced and suck up the humors Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick, And will he steal out of his wholesome bed To dare the vile contagion of the night?
William Shakespeare
#42. When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.
Willie Aames
#43. Homosexuals are brute beasts ... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.
Jerry Falwell
#44. They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
Bobby Fischer
#45. The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
Laura Ingraham
#46. Contact with the world, with which I have been steadily rubbing shoulders now for fourteen months, makes me feel more and more like returning to my shell. I hate the crowd, the herd. It seems to me always atrociously stupid or vile.
Gustave Flaubert
#47. It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.
Charles Spurgeon
#48. Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock?"
She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free.
"I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious.
Nora Roberts
#49. 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! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!
Mikhail Bulgakov
#50. God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.
Billy Graham
#51. I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.
Umberto Eco
#52. Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.
Confucius
#53. I like the word 'evil'. Scramble it a little and you will get 'vile' and 'live'. 'Good', on the other hand, is just a command to 'go do'.
Jodi Picoult
#54. I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards - all that your can do is to have me killed.
Sophocles
#55. Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
Walter Scott
#56. To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.
Edwin A. Abbott
#57. Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
Maxim Gorky
#58. So I shall tell Mitya how you kissed my hand, but I didn't kiss yours at all. And how he will laugh!" "Vile slut! Go away!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#59. Such words he spoke, but they are not his words. He was a vulgar, low-minded man, and vile oaths fell continually from his lips.
Jack London
#60. You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.
Dorothy Richardson
#61. The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.
Bryant McGill
#62. True fear has nothing to do with what might happen to you, however painful or vile that might be. True fear is all about what might happen to someone you love.
Erin Kellison
#63. It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.
Bonaventure
#64. What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
Seneca The Younger
#65. The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by
the object of its love: he who loveth mean and sordid things
doth thereby become base and vile; but a noble
and well placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit
into a conformity with the perfections which it loves.
Henry Scougal
#68. 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
#70. If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my exile for the vile parody of home.
Vladimir Nabokov
#71. I am not master of words to tell you, Jack, the value of an exceedingly remote island to a naturalist, an uninhabited fertile volcanic island covered with a luxuriant vegetation, with no vile rats, dogs, cats, goats, swine, introduced by fools to destroy an Eden, an island untouched ...
Patrick O'Brian
#72. 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 garlic.
Anthony Bourdain
#73. Lechery?" he asked with a wink, guessing from the hour that I had been with some palace kitchen-maid.
"Oh aye, most vile," I said cheerfully, and jumped into the boat.
Philippa Gregory
#74. Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.
Sophocles
#75. Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared vile. I had no more value for the favor of men than for pebbles.
David Brainerd
#76. The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.
Albion Fellows Bacon
#77. There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.
Thomm Quackenbush
#78. 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 insult you can offer to Art.
Robert Schumann
#79. I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists. I also plan on running a large newspaper ad in the Orlando Sentinel addressed to the atheists and warning the Orlando area of the atheists' vile plans for their children.
Bill Murray
#80. It is the vile falsehood and miserable unreality of Christians, their faithlessness to their Master, their love of their own wretched sects, their worldliness and unchristianity, their talking and not doing, that has to answer, I suspect, for the greater part of our present atheism.
George MacDonald
#81. There is no way I am masturbating with a gringo to something as vile and disgusting as worm-rape!
Vince Kramer
#82. In what vile part of this anatomy
Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack
The hateful mansion.
William Shakespeare
#83. Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?
Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
Georgette Heyer
#84. We should not forget Adam Smith's perspicuous observation that the "masters of mankind" - in his day, the merchants and manufacturers of England - never cease to pursue their "vile maxim": "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people.
Noam Chomsky
#85. it is not surprising that some, such as the historian John R. Vile, suggest we consider the concession as a form of military surrender or even a funeral oration. Just as after a war, the public wants peace after a presidential campaign. They hope that politicians will emulate that most
Scott Farris
#86. Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope.
C.S. Lewis
#87. The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
Adam Weishaupt
#88. Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.
Euripides
#89. A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion.
John G. Lake
#90. My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator," he shouted at the cops. "They were vile, but they didn't deserve to be taken out with the trash!
James Patterson
#91. A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
David Mallet
#92. O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Ben Jonson
#93. Humans time and again demonstrated they were capable of perpetrating crimes as vile and gruesome as any vampire.
Rebeka Harrington
#94. But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think of great things, princes will more rarely carry out fine actions, and the people will continue to be vile, corrupt, and unhappy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#95. I don't even glance at the herbal teas, I go straight for the real, vile coffee. Jitter in a cup. It cheers me up to know I'll soon be so tense.
Margaret Atwood
#97. I don't think that Prokofiev ever treated me seriously as a composer; he considered only Stravinsky a rival and never missed a chance to take a shot at him. I remember once he started telling me some vile story about Stravinsky. I cut him off.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#98. There was a great deal of skill in her smile, a smile meant to make a boy who had done nothing with his life make him feel accomplis and remarkable-vile even.
Sherry Thomas
#99. A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.
Charles Spurgeon
#100. I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.
Rosie O'Donnell
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