Excess Quotes

"Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess." ~ A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens "Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead: excessive grief the enemy to the living." ~ All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare "Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!" ~ Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens