Vices Quotes · Page 18

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

— Louis Kronenberger

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

— Edward Gorey

I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.

— Marco Rubio

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

— Henry Fielding

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

— Seneca the Younger

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

— Jonathan Swift

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

— Douglas McCulloh

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.

— Ron Fournier

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more…

— R. H. Tawney

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can…

— Charles Dickens

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

— Rebecca West

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

— Algernon Sidney

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and…

— Rick Derringer

I'm always looking for a way to serve the nation, but I don't believe that it will be as vice president and…

— Marco Rubio

I started in radio. I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying…

— Joe Buck

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even…

— Ian Mckellen

“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us…

— Anonymous

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You know, Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska, you know that. And she's a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association.…

— David Letterman

It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they…

— Karl Popper

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little…

— Anne Bronte

We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes…

— Mark Hopkins

The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a…

— Laura Riding

I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy…

— Jason Chaffetz

Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it…

— Thomas Paine

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries…

— Laurie Garrett

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

One way or another we all work for our vice.

— Ben Maddow

Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!

— Tom Stoppard

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

— James Hillman

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

— Anonymous

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld