Vices Quotes · Page 37

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

— Elijah Fenton

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

— Charles Simmons

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of…

— Whitney M. Young

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

— Francis Quarles

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

— James Harrington

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

— Maxwell Maltz

[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

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

— Alexander Pope

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son…

— Tony Curtis

I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of…

— Pat O'Shane

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition…

— John Dyer Baizley

“The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that…

— Oliver Benjamin

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing,…

— Walter Raleigh

This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a…

— Alfred Bester

No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute… In connection with…

— Crystal Eastman

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other…

— Lord Chesterfield

I cracked a child prostitution ring - I'd worked with three vice cops every day for months, out on the street, in…

— Nancy Grace

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our…

— Benjamin Rush

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide…

— William Graham Sumner

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at…

— Jon Stewart

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch…

— Ann Radcliffe

Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name… You…

— Lord Chesterfield

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

— Edmund Burke

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and…

— Aristotle

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them

— Edward James Olmos

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

— Sergio Leone

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total…

— Samuel Butler

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to…

— John Dewey

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

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

— Marya Mannes

I want to tell all the dreamers out there that they should stay away from vices if they want to succeed; that…

— Arnel Pineda

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is…

— Hinton Rowan Helper