Vices Quotes · Page 41

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a…

— Laura Riding

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

— Confucius

People make institutions, not vice versa.

— Shere Hite

Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.

— Wendy Mass

I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with…

— Luther Burbank

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt,…

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at…

— Charles Robert Maturin

With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing.…

— John Malkovich

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

— Michel de Montaigne

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee…

— Peter Drucker

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away…

— Robert Penn Warren

When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.

— Lily Allen

I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television.…

— Tom Verlaine

If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you…

— Mark Kingwell

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

— Arthur Helps

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

— Tom Barbash

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of…

— Charles Baudelaire

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

— Antoine Rivarol

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

— George Strait

My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.

— Veronika Varekova

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

— Samuel Johnson