Vice Quotes
1024 quotes by 706 authors
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
— Samuel Johnson
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
— Henry Fielding
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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state…
— Immanuel Kant
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Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box…
— Andy Warhol
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If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as…
— William James
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of…
— Aldous Huxley
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
— Cyril Connolly
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Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people…
— Karl A. Menninger
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For…
— William Golding
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
— Winston Churchill
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
— Seneca the Younger
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When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.
— Suze Orman
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If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice…
— Sid Caesar
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever…
— William James
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Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which…
— Carl Linnaeus
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There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in…
— Fredric March
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It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the…
— Aidan Gillen
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Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear,…
— George W. Romney
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There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your…
— Mark McKinnon
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