Vices Quotes · Page 8

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

— Katie Chang

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

— Chang-Rae Lee

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

— John Ruskin

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

— Dick Armey

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

— Charles Spurgeon

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

— Glen Duncan

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

— William Shakespeare

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses…

— Aristotle

“the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty…

— Elizabeth Taylor

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

— Joseph Addison

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

— Julian Baggini

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

— St. Catherine of Siena

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it…

— Italo Svevo

We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well…

— Edward Gibbon

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately…

— Joseph Addison

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as…

— Annie Besant

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it…

— Henry Adams

One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the…

— Paul Goodman

I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you…

— Mickey Rivers

If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you…

— William Shakespeare

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

The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to…

— Thomas Aquinas

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a…

— Aristotle

Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some…

— Samuel Johnson

We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is…

— William James

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

— Cassandra Clare

I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

— Cee Lo Green

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

— Edmund Burke

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

— E. L. Doctorow

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

— Samuel Johnson

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

— Alexander Pope

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

— Moliere