vicious quotes

Football, in itself, is a grand game fordeveloping a lad physicallyand also morally†but it is a viciousgame when it draws crowds of lads away from playing the game themselves to be merely onlookers at a few paid players.

- Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
  Scouting for Boys.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer† God save me from being 'nice'.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Book review, reprinted in Phoenix.

Seulement les sots sont punis, et non les vicieux. Only the foolish are punished, never the truly vicious.

-Marguerite d'Angoule"  me
  Heptame  ron, pt.13.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first.You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
  Reginald in Russia,'The Baker's Dozen'.