Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be…

The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their…

— Charles Baudelaire

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get…

— Helen Rowland

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

— George Eliot

“Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He’d been born to…

— Richard Russo

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible, otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed of.”

— Anonymous

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

— Augustus William Hare

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

— Martial

“An evil man without vices was the most dangerous of all.”

— Anand Neelakantan

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen…

— Thornton Wilder

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

— Charles Baudelaire

Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

— Charles Baudelaire