Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius Copy Share Image
The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. — William Cowper 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
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining. — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains! — Felicity Jones 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
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson 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
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
I would guess it didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word… — Jack Cafferty 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
If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Former Vice President Al Gore starring in a new documentary about global warming. I believe it's called [Leno snores]. ... The film… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa — Trevor Bailey Copy Share Image