Vice Quotes
1024 quotes by 706 authors
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I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen…
— Bernhard Schlink
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The supreme vice is shallowness.
— Oscar Wilde
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A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have…
— Rachilde
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that?…
— Stephen Fry
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I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
— David Eddings
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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in…
— C.S. Lewis
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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and…
— Dean Koontz
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There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and…
— John Piper
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.
— Yogi Berra
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If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time…
— Slash
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The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it -…
— Gregory Maguire
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt…
— Charles Dickens
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I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole,…
— Lauren Oliver
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Okay, so if that's not real, what is? What counts, to you?" He thought for a second, then said, "I don't know. Just because someone's…
— Sarah Dessen
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‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad…
— Joan Bauer
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What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in…
— Vicki Pettersson
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