Vice Quotes
1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors
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My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
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Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty,…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I didn't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love I felt for…
— Rachel Cohn
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I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
— William Shakespeare
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So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray…
— Charles Dickens
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So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being…
— William Shakespeare
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Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness,…
— Ayn Rand
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I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a…
— Julia Glass
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It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
— Richard P. Feynman
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...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a…
— Dennis Lehane
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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
— B.F. Skinner
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Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
— Georgette Heyer
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The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully…
— Charlaine Harris
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Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve…
— Philip Roth
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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually…
— Haruki Murakami
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If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
— Grant Morrison
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The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do…
— Michael Lewis
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