Vices Quotes

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

What once were vices are manners now.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.