Vice Quotes

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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. — Michel de Montaigne
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. — Benjamin Franklin
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. — Jack Newfield
I made mistakes. I canâ€™t whine about it. Iâ€™m the one that messed up and Iâ€™m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a… — Pete Rose
Donâ€™t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? — Chang-Rae Lee
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an… — Samuel Adams
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it — Finley Peter Dunne
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis de Sade
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,… — Plutarch
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different… — Dan Quayle
I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it. — Dan Quayle
I happen to be a Republican President... ah... the Vice President. — Dan Quayle
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue. — George H. W. Bush
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. — Walt Whitman
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune… — Alfred Bester
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. — Robert A. Heinlein
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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