vile quotes

   A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

-John Dennis
Of Dennis. In the Gentleman's Magazine 1781, editorial note.

No, this vile world and I have long been jangling, And cannot part on better terms than now, When only men like thee are fit to live in't.

-Thomas Otway
  Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act 4, sc.2.

And he himself one vile antithesis.

- Alexander Pope
  Of Lord Hervey.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.325.