Vices Quotes
I'm a sucker for fries. It's definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure.
It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.
I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime.
The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.
Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.
No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.
Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!
For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.
Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.
At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't go very far.
How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.
They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.