Vices Quotes

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better!

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.