Vices Quotes

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

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

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?

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

What once were vices are manners now.

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man