Vice Quotes
1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors
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The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word – you have refute and repudiate, and she combined them. A…
— David Letterman
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Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to…
— Baldassare Castiglione
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Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who…
— Saint Basil
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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
— Solomon Schechter
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Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in…
— Will Rogers
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The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men…
— Will Rogers
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If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen…
— Jane Fonda
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We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.
— Dick Cheney
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You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.
— Malcolm Turnbull
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That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never…
— Henry Adams
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Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in…
— Linda Gray
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A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem…
— Ouida
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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove…
— William Hazlitt
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