Vices Quotes · Page 24

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.

— Delarivier Manley

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

— Michel de Montaigne

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

— François De La Rochefoucauld

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

— Henry Fielding

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

— Voltaire

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

— Julian Baggini

There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent…

— Doug Stanhope

We now know that Mike Pence - Vice President-elect Mike Pence is going to be in charge of the transition replacing Chris…

— George Stephanopoulos

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice…

— Lord Byron

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

— Paul Johnson

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every…

— Plutarch

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter…

— Quintilian

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives…

— William Shakespeare

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what…

— Dennis Lehane

It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice…

— Thomas Jefferson

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of…

— Carl Jung

There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons…

— J. M. E. McTaggart

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the…

— Rachel Dolezal

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving…

— Henry Taylor

“We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend…

— L.M. Browning

For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day…

— Mike Pence

When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean…

— Peter Høeg

Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed…

— George Washington

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence…

— Joseph Heller

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

— Tori Amos

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

— Patrick Henry

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

— Melina Marchetta

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

— Publilius Syrus

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

— Bill Parcells

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

— Anonymous

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

— Josh Billings

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

— William Shakespeare