Vice Quotes
1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.
— Dick Morris
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Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.
— David Ogilvy
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Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything,…
— Peter Damian
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And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every…
— Peter Damian
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So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time
— William Shakespeare
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I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
— Evangeline Lilly
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
— David Hume
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What does the vice president do?
— Sarah Palin
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As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain…
— Joseph Nye
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It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when…
— Fredrik Bajer
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice,
— Boyd K. Packer
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Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors.…
— Umberto Eco
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When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is…
— George Washington
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
— Samuel Johnson
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Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight.…
— Joe Biden
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The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it…
— George Grosz
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I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
— Kendrick Lamar
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The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk…
— Tom Peters
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