Vice Quotes

1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries...… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,… — Michel de Montaigne
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. — Marcel Proust
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make… — Marcel Proust
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches… — Thomas Jefferson
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability… — Victor Hugo
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart. — Unknown Author
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt
Vices are often habits rather than passions. — Antoine Rivarol
The American vice is explanation. — Gore Vidal
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa. — Robert Breault
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. — Aristotle
Spare the person but lash the vice. — Martial
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. — Charles Caleb Colton
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable. — Samuel Johnson
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. — George Santayana
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears… — Boethius
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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