Vice Quotes

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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. — Honore de Balzac
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that… — Kevin Brockmeier
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. — Amy Bloom
Vice is basically the love of failure. — Elfriede Jelinek
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. — Moliere
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write Englishâ€•it is the modern way and… — Mark Twain
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare
Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip! — J D Salinger
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up… — Ian Fleming
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. — Ernest Hemingway
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE,… — Alexander Pope
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and… — Michael Pollan
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it. — Mikhail Bulgakov
I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make… — Sarah Dessen
I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question… — Haruki Murakami
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, itâ€™s indispensable. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew… — Graham Greene
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is… — Albert Camus

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