My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices,… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. — Horace Copy Share Image
Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Why'd he name Ram Dass that? And Krishna Das that, instead of vice versa? Is Krishna Das more Krishna like and Ram… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
I have something else to ask you-to ask every American. I ask for you to pray for this great nation. I ask… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted. — Tacitus 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
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image
For some sport is a hobby but for me it is a way to survive. It makes me calm, balanced and well-rested.… — Mikhail Prokhorov Copy Share Image
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
