Vice Quotes

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Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who canâ€™t be happy until theyâ€™ve graduated, servicemen who canâ€™t be happy until… — Tom Robbins
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and… — Ann Radcliffe
If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President" "Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager — Dan Gutman
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. — Voltaire
We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real… — Victor Hugo
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable. — John Wesley
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means… — Charles Baudelaire
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and… — Marcus Aurelius
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance… — Joseph Heller
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very… — Italo Svevo
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and… — C.S. Lewis
Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You… — Jeanette Winterson
Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all… — Clive Barker
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or… — C.S. Lewis
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,… — Alexander Pope
He hadnâ€™t a single redeeming vice. — Oscar Wilde
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote. — Benjamin Franklin

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