Vices Quotes

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice.

Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

I'm not interested in Vice President. I'm hanging around Arizona. I'm running again for Sheriff.

You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

I asked that I not be considered for vice president of the United States.