Vices Quotes · Page 21

Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

— Glen Duncan

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

— Henry Rollins

“Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.”

— Raheel Farooq

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

— John Ruskin

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

— Chang-Rae Lee

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

— Katie Chang

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

— Dick Armey

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

— George Bernard Shaw

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

— Janina Gavankar

Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work…

— Giles Matthey

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real…

— Elizabeth Carter

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

— Elijah Fenton

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

— St. Catherine of Siena

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

— Honore de Balzac

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of…

— Al-Ghazali

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence…

— Suzanne Curchod

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also…

— Vicki Pettersson

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I see vegan food sold in single-use plastic containers, I get frustrated knowing that plastic is not really recycled; it is…

— Karen Dawn

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Fear is not an emotion, it is a disease. It spreads from the leader to his followers and vice-versa. Nothing has killed…

— Anand Neelakantan

State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its…

— J. M. Coetzee

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing.…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a "denier"…

— Sarah Palin

As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not…

— Tench Coxe

It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose…

— Lord Byron

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

— Charles Spurgeon

A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.

— Doug Stanhope

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

— Mason Cooley

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

— Lord Acton

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

— William Blake

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

— Jenna Coleman

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

— Anonymous