Vice Quotes · Page 7

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

— Juvenal

“Informality is the vice of the masses.”

— Eloisa James

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

— William Hazlitt

For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

— Fritz Lang

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

— Juvenal

When people wear dresses, I want to wear pants and vice versa.

— Carly Chaikin

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

— Kenneth Grahame

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

— Jan Chipchase

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

— Bill Vaughan

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Even a lame-duck president can be affected by a clear midterm message if he wants to see his vice president elected and…

— Noah Feldman

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

— Edmund Burke

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

— D. Todd Christofferson

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

— Quintilian

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring…

— Sara Zarr

I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an…

— Twyla Tharp

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally…

— Evangeline Lilly

I always knew I wanted to be on air and travel the world and tell people's stories. I wanted to convey something…

— Clarissa Ward

If you want me to perform in Silver Lake - where it looks like 'Vice' magazine threw up everywhere, where all the…

— Ali Wong

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,…

— Aristophanes

I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

What we found was that Generation Y is absolutely consumed with news. They love news; it's one of their biggest passion points.…

— Shane Smith

“When I was a young man and very well thought of, I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied. I nibbled their…

— Peter S. Beagle

“In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies…

— Washington Irving

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the…

— Donella Meadows

“We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit…

— Zeena Schreck

“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of…

— John Patrick Shanley

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And…

— John Steinbeck

When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know…

— Moderata Fonte

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

— Samuel Johnson

Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.

— C. F. W. Walther

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

— Ouida

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

— Benjamin Franklin

My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.

— Jack Keane

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

I don't think Vice and BuzzFeed are legitimate news organizations.

— Jeff Zucker