It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive… — W. H. Auden 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
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie… — Ramon Novarro Copy Share Image
“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
