Vices Quotes

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

There is even the dignity of vice.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

That low vice, curiosity!

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .