Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or… — Gore Vidal 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
Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love.… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not… — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa. — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than… — Peter Kropotkin 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
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
