Vices Quotes · Page 39

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

— John Milton

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every…

— Plutarch

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter…

— Quintilian

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest…

— Dirk Benedict

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

— Honore de Balzac

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice…

— Lord Byron

Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less…

— Ann Coulter

“Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire,(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on…

— John N. Gray

Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had…

— Eric Schmidt

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a…

— Anonymous

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues,…

— Marquis de Sade

It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in…

— Robert Bellarmine

Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide…

— Alexander Haig

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time…

— Anonymous

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the…

— Bashar al-Assad

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the…

— Mark Twain

If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would…

— Lysander Spooner

A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that…

— Rod Stryker

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who…

— Thomas Jefferson

I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I…

— Pete Rose

We now know that Mike Pence - Vice President-elect Mike Pence is going to be in charge of the transition replacing Chris…

— George Stephanopoulos

There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent…

— Doug Stanhope

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

— Charles Caleb Colton

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

— Paul Johnson

It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty…

— Elizabeth Taylor

Quebec's distinct character makes Canada an even better country, and vice versa: being in Canada makes Quebec a better place too.

— Philippe Couillard

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master…

— Charles Spurgeon

“They think one enjoys oneself by an endless procession of new vices. For myself I prefer to have one or two vices,…

— Alex Beecroft

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

— William Graham Sumner

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

— Harry S. Truman

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

— Assata Shakur

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American…

— Frank Lautenberg

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

— Charles Baudelaire

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as…

— Horace