"There is nothing left," she writes, "when the priest and Catholic vandalism have passed by, destroying the monuments of the old world and leaving their lice for the future."[54]英文原著 · 《George Sand》
``It would be a desecration,'' said he, ``to deprive the book of its original binding. Would you tear off and cast away the covers which have felt the caressing pressure of the hands of those whose memory you revere? The most sacred of sentiments should forbid that act of vandalism!''英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》
What must the other folk have done-- Who, glancing o'er the books they bought, Came soon and suddenly upon The vandalism Varro wrought! How must their cheeks have flamed with red-- How did their hearts with choler beat! We can imagine what they said-- We can imagine, not repeat!英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》
Yet De Quincey insisted that he knew ``just where everything was,'' and he merely exacted that the servants attempt no such vandalism as ``cleaning up'' in his workshop. Of course there would presently come a time when there was no more room on the table and when the little pathway to the fireplace and the door would be no longer visible; then, with a sigh, De Quincey would lock the door of that room and betake himself to other quarters, which in turn would eventually become quite as littered up, cluttered up, and impassable as the first rooms.英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》
Now for the evidence. Alexandria was captured by Armrou in 640. The story of the burning of the library occurs for the first time in the works of Abulpharagius, who flourished in 1264. Six hundred years had elapsed. It is as if a story about the crusades of Louis IX. were to be found for the first time in the writings of Mr. Bancroft. The Byzantine historians were furiously angry with the Saracens; why did they, one and all, neglect to mention such an outrageous piece of vandalism?英文原著 · 《The Unseen World and Other Essays》
Yeah, even setting aside our CEO's sexual distortion, adultery, and lowbrow scatological vandalism,美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》