Vice Quotes

1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors

Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand… — James Whistler
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is… — Michel de Montaigne
That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. — Laozi
Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. — Frances Wright
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. — Bret Harte
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. — James Russell Lowell
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring… — William Shakespeare
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt
Pleasure itself is not a vice — Samuel Johnson
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant… — Thomas Carlyle
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. — Juvenal
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously — Elbert Hubbard
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. — Ben Jonson
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice. — Alexander Pope
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. — Thomas Paine

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