Vices Quotes · Page 16

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

— Seneca the Younger

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

— Owen Feltham

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

— Edgar Degas

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

— Lord Byron

“It is a vice to be proud or unashamed of your vice.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

— Kevin Keegan

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

— Lord Byron

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

— Margaret Deland

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

— Anonymous

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked…

— Cynthia Payne

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

— Piers Paul Read

The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.

— Gregory Benford

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

— John Dryden

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd…

— Geraldine Ferraro

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

— Marquis de Sade

I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational,…

— William Jones

Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's…

— Paul Davies

Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game,…

— Paul Meyer

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to…

— Bernard Beckett

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me…

— Samuel Beckett

I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to…

— Amos Oz

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice…

— Lysander Spooner

Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),…

— Aristotle

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,…

— Thomas Jefferson

If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no…

— Ambrose

Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful…

— Mindy Kaling

To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common…

— Jean Meslier

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good…

— Charles Dickens

Former Vice President Al Gore starring in a new documentary about global warming. I believe it's called [Leno snores]. ... The film…

— Jay Leno

If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

— Honore de Balzac

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

— Robert Smith Surtees

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

— Plato

I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.

— Dean Martin

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

— Publilius Syrus

There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa

— Trevor Bailey