I spent my life mixin' with your breed, and I don't like it. Get me. You can hide behind a lot of red tape, crooked lawyers and po...liticians with the gimmes, writs of habeas corpus, witnesses that don't remember overnight, but we'll get through to you, just like we got all the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In front of that sinner of a husband, she rattled off... only those words that her pack of vile-tongued girlfriends taught her as fast as she could, and after, began to behave at the Love-god's beck and call. It's indescribable, this natural, charming path of love, paved with the gems of inexperience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound to ...be dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in t...he clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of.... I have always wagered against God and I rega...rd the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of oursel...ves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Attorneys-general, awful to the sight, As hinting more (unless our judgments warp us)... Of the "Star Chamber"than of "Habeas Corpus."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is in...side ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Teehee," quod she, and clapte the windowe to. And Absolon gooth forth a sory pas.... "A beerd, a beerd!" quod hende Nicholas, "By Goddes corpus, this gooth faire and weel."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be mor...e divine and less brutal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »