More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa.… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius Copy Share Image
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers,… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
