If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making…

“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

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

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

— Charles Baudelaire

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

— Daniel Schacter

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices…

— Karen Kijewski

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

— Denis Diderot

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind…

— Roger Rosenblatt

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Anand Neelakantan

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

— Martial

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

— Augustus William Hare

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

— Anonymous

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think not that…

— Sir Thomas Browne