Vices Quotes · Page 9

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

— William Shakespeare

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

— J. G. Holland

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

— Jason Gann

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

— Susan Estrich

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Jonathan Swift

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

— Benjamin Franklin

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.

— Delarivier Manley

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of…

— Marquis de Sade

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for…

— Colin Baker

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

— D. Todd Christofferson

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

— Agnes Repplier

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

— Marco Rubio

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

— Angela Carter

I'm a sucker for fries. It's definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure.

— Shenae Grimes

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…

— Adam Smith

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do…

— Stephen Fry

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt,…

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to…

— Steven Pinker

Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing…

— Nora Ephron

I spoke to Tom's [Hardy] manager and said, "While we're talking about Taboo, do you mind if I also mention this film…

— Steven Knight

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman…

— Henry David Thoreau

Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep…

— Satchel Paige

Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter…

— Libba Bray

“The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close…

— Umberto Eco

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations…

— Benjamin Franklin

Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.…

— Charlie Munger

I don't think I could ever stop doing serious movies and just do comedies, or vice versa, but there is something cool…

— John C. Reilly

The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and…

— Maimonides

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

— Michel de Montaigne

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

— François De La Rochefoucauld

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

— Henry Fielding

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

— Voltaire

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

— Julian Baggini

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

— Bias of Priene

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

— Walter Scott

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

— Samuel Johnson