Vice Quotes
1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors
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Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have…
— James Surowiecki
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged…
— Helen Thomas
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I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest…
— Carrot Top
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
— Bill Vaughan
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Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel…
— Dionne Warwick
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests…
— George Washington
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try…
— Sigourney Weaver
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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts…
— Noah Webster
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
— Orson Welles
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The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
— Julian Baggini
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Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
— Julian Baggini
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Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the…
— Germaine Greer
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Vices are their own punishment
— Aesop
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Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president,…
— William Gibson
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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to…
— John Steinbeck
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
— Anais Nin
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My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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