Vices Quotes

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

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Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

A vice is a failure of desire

Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.

Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.