Mary Manley Quotes

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

I like something with 'vice' in it.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

You cannot be serious!

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.