Vilest

'shadows of shadows,' as Plautus calls the vilest toadies to sycophants, who, hard-working men themselves, try to catch some faint reflection of sham gentility by 'talking pro-slavery because they think it aristocratic,' as Winthrop says? ❋ Various (N/A)

Had I one friend — or were it my worst enemy! — to whom, when sickened with the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself, and known as the vilest of all sinners, methinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby. ❋ Unknown (2002)

I have read accounts of colonial society where it has been characterized as the vilest that can be imagined in a civilized state; where the men are spoken of as habitual debauchees, and the women as universally shameless, immoral, and dissipated; where life and property are insecure; and bushrangers are the terror of the inhabitants. ❋ Colin Munro (N/A)

The noblest things in Egypt are British; the vilest are the products of aliens who have dodged justice and cleanness through the vagaries of ❋ R. W. Campbell (N/A)

As she would have come to preach _Truth, _ you may suppose Truth needed, and therefore lacking; and so, that her teachings would have been at once dubbed vilest heterodoxy, and herself ❋ Kenneth Morris (1908)

Had I one friend, — or were it my worst enemy! — to whom, when sickened with the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself, and be known as the vilest of all sinners, methinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

—to whom, when sickened with the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself, and be known as the vilest of all sinners, methinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby. ❋ Unknown (1917)

-- to whom, when sickened with the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself, and be known as the vilest of all sinners, methinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

"It doesn't happen often," Dr. Marie Nyswander concedes, "but once in a while, one of the so-called vilest addicts in East Harlem finds a doctor who gives him drugs or he gets an easy source from a friend. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"vilest" form of life, new details emerged about the vessel's final moments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the face of one of the vilest crimes against humanity in our day, they can spur awareness and support healing. ❋ Susan McCue (2011)

They pushed the Macedonians back into the river and killed many, all while the two sides shouted the vilest insults at each other in Greek. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

You are the vilest pile of dogshit I have ever seen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He ran the gamut of denunciation, rising to heights of wrath that were sublime and almost Godlike, and from sheer exhaustion sinking to the vilest and most indecent abuse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And when I would come upon my father, seated at table in these subterranean crypts, gambling with Chinese for great stakes of gold, all my outrage gave vent in the vilest cursing. ❋ Unknown (2010)