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Virtue/Decadence

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

-- H. L. Mencken

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

-- Michel de Montaigne

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

-- Paula Poundstone

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

-- Mae West

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

-- Mae West

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

-- Oscar Wilde

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

-- Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.

-- Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

-- Oscar Wilde

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

-- Virginia Woolf