Vices Quotes

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

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 .

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.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

Vices are not crimes.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

What once were vices are manners now.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.