Vice Quotes

1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it. — Edgar Degas
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it… — Edgar Degas
That low vice, curiosity! — Lord Byron
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the… — Epictetus
Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything… — Thomas Sowell
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of… — Paul Watzlawick
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. — Charles Spurgeon
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. — Philip Massinger
Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa. — Kevin Keegan
When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy — Jack Ruby
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. — Bill Gates
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin. — Whitney M. Young
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa. — Alan Ayckbourn
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . .… — Georges Bizet
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may… — John Tyler
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much. — Mary Cheney
The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover. — Greg Gutfeld
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their… — William H. Seward
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the… — John Philip Sousa
Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of… — Thomas R. Marshall
There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different… — Jonathan Carroll
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields… — Iwan Bloch
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what… — Frederic Bastiat
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. — Samuel Johnson

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