“HERMIT, n.: A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
Tag: vices
Quote of the Day
“Reading certain novels is a little like looking through the keyhole to learn what the neighbor is doing and thinking—does he have the same inferiority complex, the same vices, the same temptations?” — Georges Simenon, The Art of Fiction No. 9, The Paris Review, Issue 9, Summer 1955
Quote of the Day
“People in general will much better bear being, told of their vices or crimes, than of their little failings and weaknesses.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son (1749-11-26)
Quote of the Day
“There are virtues that, adhered to too strictly or carried too far, become vices.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes