In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, desperately,… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
While CNN has hired a fleet of new political reporters to beef up its coverage of these elections [2016], it also maintains… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
