Vices famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
-- Aaron Hill -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
-- Abu Bakr -
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
-- Adam Smith -
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
-- Alan Ayckbourn -
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
-- Alan Cumming -
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
-- Alan Perlis -
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
-- Albert Camus -
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
-- Albert Pike -
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
-- Alec Guinness -
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
-- Alexander Haig -
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
-- Alexander Pope -
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
-- Alexander Pope -
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
-- Alexander Pope -
Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
-- Alexander Pope -
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
-- Alexander Pope -
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.
-- Alexander Pope -
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
-- Alexander Pope -
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
-- Algernon Sidney -
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
-- Amy Bloom -
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
-- Anais Nin -
I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.
-- Andre Benjamin -
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
-- Andres Serrano -
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
-- Angela Carter -
Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?
-- Ann Coulter -
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
-- Annie Besant -
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
-- Antonio Machado -
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
-- Antonio Machado -
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
-- Aristophanes -
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.
-- Aristotle -
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
-- Aristotle -
Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.
-- Aristotle -
There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
-- Augustus Hare -
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
-- B. F. Skinner -
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
-- Barbara Amiel -
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice
-- Barry Goldwater -
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
-- Ben Jonson -
It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
-- Bergen Evans -
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin -
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
-- Bias of Priene -
If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
-- Bill Parcells -
Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President.
-- Bill Whittle -
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
-- Blaise Pascal -
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
-- Blaise Pascal -
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.
-- Bob Dylan -
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
-- Bret Harte -
I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me to be vice president, the answer is I got to say yes. But he's not going to ask me.
-- Brian Williams -
I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.
-- Britt Ekland -
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.
-- Cara Castronuova -
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
-- Casey Stengel -
Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?
-- Chang-Rae Lee -
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
-- Charles Churchill -
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
-- Charles Dickens -
If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
-- Charles Simmons -
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.
-- Charles Sumner -
Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.
-- Charlie Munger -
Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
-- Christine Todd Whitman -
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
-- Christopher Wren -
[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius -
I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
-- Colin Baker -
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
-- Confucius -
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
-- Confucius -
Maria Shriver is credited with helping Arnold win by standing by him despite allegations of groping. She had to stand by him cause Arnold had a vice grip on her left ***** cheek.
-- Craig Kilborn -
By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
-- Cynthia Payne -
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
-- D. Todd Christofferson -
If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President" "Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager
-- Dan Gutman -
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
-- Daniel Defoe -
I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
-- David Eddings -
My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.
-- David Lynch -
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
-- Dawn Powell -
I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.
-- Dean Martin -
There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ...
-- Delarivier Manley
