Jeaniene Frost Quotes

I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified

I guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.