Vice Quotes

1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their… — James F. Cooper
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for… — Ann Coulter
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. — Quentin Crisp
We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter,… — Tony Curtis
The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it… — Willem Dafoe
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. — Daniel Defoe
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. — Edgar Degas
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. — Denis Diderot
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. — Albert Einstein
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. — George Eliot
Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is… — Rahm Emanuel
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. — Arthur Erickson
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in… — Francois Fenelon
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. — E. M. Forster
As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the… — Mark Haddon
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. — Alexander Haig
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. — William Hazlitt
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. — William Hazlitt

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