Vices Quotes

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

Every vice is already a punishment in itself... you don't need a ticket on top of it.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

The American vice is explanation.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.

Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.