Vices Quotes

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

Tim Kaine is an excellent choice for vice president.

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.

I'm always looking for a way to serve the nation, but I don't believe that it will be as vice president and I'm really not seeking it, I'm not requesting it and it won't happen.

I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.

I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.