Vices Quotes

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.