Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar… — Alexander Pope 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
Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to… — Judith N. Shklar Copy Share Image
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely. — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
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