“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.” – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 24. The monster to Robert Walton, at the deathbed of Victor on the ship.
Lord, Lord! how subject we old men are to this vice of lying. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 2.
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime. – Isaac D’Israeli
Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found. – John Olver