I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] ” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem,… — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
Shane Smith has led Vice from a fledgling magazine into a global media brand, and all of us at A+E are excited… — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
Vice' came up really quickly. I was doing something else, and I got a call, and I said, 'Absolutely.' It wasn't a… — Shea Whigham Copy Share Image
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend… — Valentina Matviyenko Copy Share Image
The truth is hip hop has always complemented jazz and vice versa, but there's always been this communication barrier that exists based… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential… — John Edwards Copy Share Image
It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“And then there was pain and blood and tears, all those things that cause suffering and revolt, the killing of Françoise, the… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
“A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who all go under the general… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image