Top 633 Vicious Quotes & Sayings

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

You know, it's trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. Not only are there a lot of outsiders intervening but this also involves a vicious internal war. There are many who believe the Alawites will fight to the death because they believe that, should they lose power, the majority would take, would show no compassion for them. They ruled that country for a long time, ruthlessly. It is a vicious civil war that makes one want to cry every day.

Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler!

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

I was a massive Sid Vicious fanatic.

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

It can only sound one way with the Prodigy - vicious, banging and, yeah, incites a riot.

For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.

Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

I was a sick animal. I was jealous. I was vicious.

I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

Who knew an elf queen could be so vicious!

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.

We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable.

I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

Yeah, and Mr. Cuddles is a jealous sort. He doesn’t share us well. (Geary) Does this mean I’ll have to fight him? (Arik) You’d never win. Mr. Cuddles cheats. You think he’s just a pushover teddy bear, but he’s vicious, I tell you. Vicious. (Geary)

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

It's no secret that the blogosphere is more vicious on women than it is on men.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.

So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.