The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I… — Mario Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however… — Lucian Copy Share Image
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life. — Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Copy Share Image
Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa. — David Lynch Copy Share Image