It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice. — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game,… — Paul Meyer Copy Share Image
Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence… — Ouida Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find,… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Vices shouldn't be safe. They're what remind us we're alive and mortal.” — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
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