Vices Quotes
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
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.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.
Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.