Vices Quotes

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.

The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

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?

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

One way or another we all work for our vice.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

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.

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

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.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

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.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

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.

What I liked so much while shooting [a movie], I might not like anymore when I see it or vice versa. The two are connected but not on a causal level.

Brain surgery is not like politics and vice versa.

I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.

I happen to be a Republican President... ah... the Vice President.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.

Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.