美德/堕落 Virtue/Decadence[英语名人名言]

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone. -- H. L. Mencken There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665