Vices Quotes · Page 33

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that…

— Michel de Montaigne

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all…

— Michel de Montaigne

As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them.

— Brooke Shields

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden…

— Conan O'Brien

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

— Bill Vaughan

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

— Pat Paulsen

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

— Kenneth Grahame

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which…

— Ambrose Bierce

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies…

— Charles Brockden Brown

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble…

— Lord Byron

Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence…

— Benjamin Haydon

In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the…

— Pope Pius IX

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued.…

— Thomas Paine

Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones…

— Anonymous

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

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

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie…

— Dick Cheney

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with…

— Samuel Johnson

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never…

— James Sharp

All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who…

— Niels Bohr

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like…

— Anna Julia Cooper

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or…

— Grant Morrison

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more…

— R. H. Tawney

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.

— Ron Fournier

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can…

— Charles Dickens

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

— Rebecca West

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

— Algernon Sidney

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice…

— Benicio Del Toro

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

— Douglas McCulloh

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren’t many things better than those two…

— Dianna Agron

I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep…

— Julia Glass

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge