Vices Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.
We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.
What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act.
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
