Vice Quotes

1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors

As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty… — Leonardo da Vinci
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker. — Dorothy Parker
I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice… — Geraldine Ferraro
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all… — John Milton
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure. — Mason Cooley
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Vice is its own reward. — Quentin Crisp
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a… — Primo Levi
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? — Mary Wollstonecraft
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't… — Mary Astell
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. — Frederic Raphael
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be… — Horace Mann
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through… — Ken Burns
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience. — John Florio
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. — Angela Carter
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days. — Michel Patini
I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know… — Haley Reinhart

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