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
It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face… — Fredric March Copy Share Image
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I may not be funny. I may not be a singer. I may not be a damn seamstress. I may have diabetes.… — Justin Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.] — Horace Copy Share Image
If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Mr Pin lit a cigar. Smoking was his one vice. at least, it was his only vice that he thought of as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a… — Jean Smart Copy Share Image