There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa. — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining. — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains! — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not… — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask,… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I didn't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
