Vices Quotes

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body - and vice versa.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

Vices are their own punishment

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.