Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. — Horace Copy Share Image
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding 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
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself… — Immanuel Kant 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
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
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image