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  • The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. -- Juvenal
  • The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us. -- Quintus Ennius
  • The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience. -- Joseph Conrad
  • Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. -- Abu Bakr
  • In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
  • Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion. -- Honore de Balzac
  • There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men. -- Thomas Brooks
  • Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. -- Alan Moore
  • It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us. -- Ben Jonson
  • All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life. -- Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
  • I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil. -- Charles Dickens
  • The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world. -- Mikhail Bakunin
  • The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there. -- Oscar Wilde
  • But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love. -- Oswald Chambers
  • Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers. -- Edward Gibbon
  • Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. -- John Gay
  • Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. -- Saadi
  • Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him. -- Francois Fenelon
  • 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 fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell. -- William Shakespeare
  • I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall. -- Sir John Davies
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