Vices Quotes · Page 11

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

— Anonymous

My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

— Diane von Furstenberg

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

— Robin Skelton

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

— Honore de Balzac

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

— Juvenal

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

— Samuel Johnson

When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.

— Lily Allen

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

— Julian Baggini

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

— St. Catherine of Siena

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

— Winston Churchill

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

— Francis Quarles

“True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices”

— Angelica Hopes

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

— Denis Diderot

God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being…

— Jane Fonda

I can be out auditioning but a lot of times it's word of mouth more than anything - having worked on other…

— Michelle Glick

the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in…

— Gloria Steinem

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice…

— Georges Bizet

When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in…

— Lewis Black

Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and…

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the…

— Warren Buffett

It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love.…

— Joan Bauer

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may…

— Horace Mann

While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other…

— Anonymous

I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy…

— Jason Chaffetz

Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it…

— Thomas Paine

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries…

— Laurie Garrett

The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a…

— Laura Riding

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

— Juliette Binoche

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Lady Caroline Lamb

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

— Morris West

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

— Anais Nin

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

— Charles Spurgeon

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

— Henry David Thoreau