Vices Quotes · Page 69

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

— Ovid

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— Dan Gutman

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

— John Ruskin

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity…

— Francis Bacon

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there…

— Oscar Wilde

In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the…

— Pope Pius IX

It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid.…

— John Carpenter

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love.…

— Bernhard Schlink

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

— Mark Twain

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft…

— Michel de Montaigne

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

— St. Catherine of Siena

I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's…

— John McCain

Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

— Henry Rollins

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried…

— Charles Dickens

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious…

— John Milton

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

— Francis Bacon

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by…

— Thomas S. Monson

...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.

— William Faulkner

In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted…

— Conan O'Brien

There is even the dignity of vice.

— Antoine Rivarol