Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa. — Katie Chang Copy Share Image
“Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency… — Anita Dunn Copy Share Image
I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing.… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on… — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers,… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is… — William James Copy Share Image
A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image