Vice Quotes

1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors

Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is… — W. E. B. Du Bois
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help… — Evelyn Waugh
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue… — William Booth
Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument… — William J. Clinton
Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa. — Eugene Ormandy
Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa. — Eugene Ormandy
If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on… — Sarah Palin
Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President. — Bill Whittle
There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice… — Ruben Blades
Virtue consists in fleeing vice. — Horace
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed,… — Henry Adams
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being… — Moliere
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever. — Luc de Clapiers
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Who Wrote These Vice Quotes

706 authors contributed a total of 1,024 Vice Quotes, led by these top contributors: